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Summary

Medieval field system visible with extensive ridge and furrow, consisting of banked and ditched boundaries above North Walla Brook on Chagford Common

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018926: Three agglomerated enclosures containing stone hut circles, a cairn cemetery, post-medieval fields and tinworks on Chagford Common
• SHINE: Extensive area of tin streamworks on the River Bovey related to tin working and the medieval field system around Lakeland Farm

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/222
• Old SAM Ref: 28728
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD SYSTEM (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

National Monument Record, 1977, SX6883, 2 + 4 (Aerial Photograph). SDV250648.

Photographs taken on 18th May 1977.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Interpretation). SDV319854.

Field system visible with extensive ridge and furrow, consisting of banked and ditched boundaries above North Walla Brook on Chagford Common.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 149390 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Site visited on 29th January 1999. Historic field system on Chagford Common.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, Map 25 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Area of ridge and furrow shown on Map.

Cosford, J., 1991-2, Chagford Common (Worksheet). SDV244606.

Partially enclosed by Medieval ditch and bank.

Passmore, A. J., 1997, Boveycombehedd, Chagford, Devon: an archaeological investigation of a Diachronic landscape, 19-20 (Post-Graduate Thesis). SDV360382.

Narrow ridge and furrow field Medieval system on Chagford Common. Map object partly based on this source.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Traces of ridge and furrow and outlines of fields visible on aerial photograph. Map object partly based on this source.

Historic England, 2018, National Heritage List for England, 1018926 (National Heritage List for England). SDV360653.

The monument includes three agglomerated enclosures containing stone hut circles, a cairn cemetery, post-medieval fields, an openwork, streamworks, and a tin mine situated on an east facing slope of Chagford Common overlooking the Walla Brook.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7505 - Boveycombehedd, Chagford: An Archaeological Investigation of a Diachronic Landscape

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