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Summary

One of three pillow mounds to the south of the Black Tor enclosures

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthworks and walling remains of a Bronze Age settlement south-west of Black Tor, consisting of six enclosures, associated hut circles, a section of reave, cairns, a stone row and at least eight medieval pillow mounds

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SE71
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441980
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/489
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• PILLOW MOUND (Early Medieval to XXI - 1066 AD to 2009 AD)

Full description

Linehan, C. D., 1966, Deserted Sites and Rabbit-Warrens on Dartmoor, Devon, 124 (Article in Serial). SDV307246.

Warren; four pillow-mounds counted at Zeal Burrows, South Brent.

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

Drawn but not described.

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

Pillow mound visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2020, MasterMap 2020 (Cartographic). SDV363413.

Pillow mound shown on modern mapping.

National Monuments Record, 2020, Pastscape, 441980, SX66SE71 (Website). SDV363416.

Site visited on 21st December 1977. At Zeal Burrows (name not confirmed) centred at SX 67996317 on a south-east slope are seven bracken-covered pillow mounds. They average 15.5 metres long, 5.0 metres wide and 0.8 metres high, are all ditched, and have their main axis aligned with the slope. The pillow mound at SX 68016332 lies within an enclosure.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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