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Summary

Medieval or later tin streamworks at Great Links Tor and Doe Tor. The northern area has an impressive group of beamworks and a maze of small opencuts, passing downhill into streamworks with well-develope parallel and retained spoil dumps. Also associated with the streamworks are dams, a small reservoir, and a well-made packhorse track.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1021214: Foxhole Mine and other tinworks south east of Arms Tor
• SHINE: Earthwork remains of post-medieval or earlier tin streamworking on the River Lyd and Walla Brook and leats on Doetor Common and one running from Great Nodden to the Doetor Brook
• SHINE: Earthwork remains of post-medieval or earlier streamworking north of Sharp Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX58NW51
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1398493
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58NE/54
• Old SAM Ref: 34478

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BEAMWORK (Early Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1066 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))
• DAM (Early Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1066 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))
• OPENCUT (Early Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1066 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))
• RESERVOIR (Early Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1066 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))
• STREAMWORKS (Early Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1066 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))

Full description

National Monuments Record, 1969, SX5885, 1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV249074.

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

Streamwork visible on 1969 aerial photograph.

Cranstone, D. + Hedley, I., 1995, Monuments Protection Programme: The Tin Industry Step 3 Site Assessments, Devon 24 (Report - non-specific). SDV357946.

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 2003-2004, Measured survey North Dartmoor Military Range Okehampton Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV350801.

(01/04/2004) Medieval or later tin streamworks at Great Links Tor and Doe Tor. The northern area has an impressive group of beamworks and a maze of small opencuts, passing downhill into streamworks with well-developed parallel and retained spoil dumps. Also associated with the streamworks are dams, a small reservoir, and a well-made packhorse track.

Ancient Monuments, 2004, Schedule note (Schedule Document). SDV249075.

(21/01/2004) The monument includes 'Foxhole Mine' as well as alluvial and eluvial tin streamwork around 'Doetor Brook'.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8679 - Okehampton Range: Management Survey
• EDV7368 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area, Peter Tavy (1998)
• EDV8291 - Okehampton Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
• EDV8695 - Survey of Okehampton North Dartmoor Military Range
• EDV6663 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6664 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6665 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV8141 - Condition survey of the Willsworthy Training Area

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