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Summary

Remains of a post medieval building of 6 metres by 4 metres with walls 1 metre wide by up to 1.3 metres high to the north-west fo White Tor

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork and structural remains of a bronze age settlement along a reave as well as a medieval field system and two farmsteads and post-medieval or earlier tin streamworking remains and trial pits on Cudlipptown Down

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57NW111
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 918823
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NW/138

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BUILDING (Post Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1540 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))
• FIELD BARN (Post Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1540 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))
• TINNERS HUT (Post Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1540 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Small rectangular building shown on 19th century map.

National Monuments Record, 1977, NMR SX5479, 3/120 (Aerial Photograph). SDV226229.

Photograph taken on 20th May 1977.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Small rectangular building within farmland to the north of White Tor.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(18/11/1987) SX 5456 7918. A rectangular, stone-walled ruin situated in enclosed land on the NW slope of White Tor. It is built with long axis along the contour in an angle formed by the junction of two field boundaries, and terraced into the slope. The structure is massively built of large moorland blocks and boulders, unworked but random-coursed into walls 1 metre thick and 0.75 metres to 1.3 metres high, enclosing an area 6 metres by 4 metres. There is a simple entrance gap, 0.8 metres wide, in the eastern short wall immediately adjacent to the north-east corner.
Large amounts of fallen stone lie inside; especially at the west end and along the south and east walls. At the west end this tumble is at least 1 metres deep, as high as the surviving portion of wall. The north wall has, in part, fallen outwards; only one course of facing survives outside, with four courses inside. There is a scatter of stone from this fall extending a little way downhill. The building is depicted on the OS 6" 1st Edition (1889), though nothing is shown on the Tavistock Tithe Map of 1844. It was possibly an outlying field barn of Post-Medieval date connected with the holding of Buttworthy, of which the settlement was the centre in the Medieval period. Alternatively, it may have been connected with mineral prospecting: there are several trial pits a few metres to the east and an extensive area of streamworking 300 metres to the north.
See RCHME 1:2500 survey of Cudlipptown Down.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 94, Map 31, Figure 31.7 (Monograph). SDV219155.

'House' shown on the east side of the 'Cudlipptown Down East' settlement.

Newman, P., 2004, Merrivale Range Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV346874.

(15/12/2004) Merrivale Range Baseline Condition Survey visit. This feature remains as described in 1987 and in good condition.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2022, Mastermap 2022 (Cartographic). SDV364674.

Rectangular building shown on modern mapping.

National Monument Record, Unknown, SX57NW111, SX57NW111 (National Monuments Record Database). SDV224446.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7441 - Condition survey of the archaeological sites of Merrivale Training Area
• EDV7570 - Condition survey of Merrivale Range training area
• EDV8713 - Merrivale Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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