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Summary

Medieval or post-medieval pound or small stone walled rectangular enclosure at north end of Roborough village. It is shown on 19th century historic mapping and is visible on aerial imagery taken from 1946 onwards.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019786: Animal pound at The Pound, 620m south of Roborough House

Other References/Statuses

• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1355551
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SW/137
• Old SAM Ref: 33772

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ancient Monuments, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV156151.

Site visit animal pound at the pound, 620 meters from Roborough House.

AM, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV156152.

Flanks entrance to 'the cottage' a 19c estate worker's house. Sub-rectangular walled enclosure with blocked gateway on e side. Wall up to 1.8m high, 0.45m thick, and is curved at se corner. Built of mortared slate + quartz rubble with some carved lava fragments. Some reconstruction, particularly of the roadside wall, is suggested by a granite block with a benchmark, reused upside down in n jamb of gateway. Gateway, centrally set in e wall, is 2m wide, blocked with cemented slate rubble. An earth hedgebank, fronted with drystone rubble, continues line of e wall to n. Road + path surfaces excluded from scheduling, as is paved + gravel surface within pound. Ground beneath them included (am).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV156153.

Des=gray, v. /parish checklist.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV156154.

Des=ancient monuments/(-/-/2000)/as above.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV3506.

Vis=-/7/1982 (gray) there is a manor pound or small stone walled rectangular enclosure at north end of roborough village (gray).

South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments (Cartographic). SDV359954.

The enclosure corresponds with land parcel 604 recorded as ‘Manor Pound’.

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

A rectangular enclosure is shown and labelled as ‘Pound’.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/106G/UK/1190 (Aerial Photograph). SDV363067.

A rectangular enclosure is visible.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 1999-2017, Pan Government Agreement Aerial Photographs, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery SX5062 01-JUN-2002 (Aerial Photograph). SDV363087.

A rectangular enclosure is visible.

2018, Animal Pound at The Pound, 620 metres south of Roborough House, Roborough (Un-published). SDV360932.

The animal pound is located on the west side of the former Tavistock Road at the north end of Roborough village. It flanks the entrance to the cottage, a 19th century estate worker's house. The monument survives as a sub-rectangular walled enclosure with a blocked gateway on its east side. The wall is up to 1.8 metres high and 0.45 metres thick and is curved at the south east corner. The road and path surfacings are excluded from the scheduling where they fall within the pound's 2 metres protective margin, as is the paved and gravel surface inside the pound. The ground beneath them is, however, included.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2019-2020, The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey. Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (AI&M, formerly NMP) (Interpretation). SDV362982.

A rectangular walled enclosure of a medieval or post-medieval pound, circa 13m long by 9m wide, is visible as a structure on aerial imagery taken from 1946 onwards. The pound corresponds with an enclosure (land parcel 604) shown on the mid-19th century Parish Tithe Map which is recorded as ‘Manor Pound on the accompanying Tithe Apportionment. It is also shown and labelled as ‘Pound’ on the late 19th century First Edition Ordnance Survey map.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8098 - The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping (formerly NMP) Survey, Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (Ref: ACD2040)

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