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Summary

One of a row of at least a dozen, arranged along the banks of Spanish Lake. Warren dates to the early 19th century and was worked with Hentor Warren until the 1930s. Mound measures 12.7 metres by 5.8 metres by 1 metre high.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019083: Medieval farmstead and field system, length of Willings Walls Reave, four round cairns, a ring cairn and pillow mounds at Willings Walls Warren

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/273

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• PILLOW MOUND (XIX to World War II - 1807 AD to 1939 AD (Between))

Full description

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

'Pillow mound' shown on aerial photograph transcription - no reference given for photograph.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140750, 15/4/1995 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Pillow mound F at SX58176560 (incorrect grid reference). Measures 12.7 metres by 5.8 metres by 1 metre high. The mound is retained by a drystone revetment which is visible along the south and east sides and survives elsewhere as a buried feature. The surrounding ditch is 2.3 metres wide and 0.2 metres deep. An 8 metre long, 0.4 metre wide and 0.1 metre deep gully leads west-north-west from the south-western end of the mound's ditch. This gully may be a drainage ditch and or animal run.
Gerrard refers to this as being the same as site no.102 537 in the National Trust Upper Plym Inventory, so perhaps his grid reference should be SX5817 6461 (A. Richards comment).

National Trust and English Heritage, 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape, Site 102 537, page 160 (Report - non-specific). SDV166309.

Sub-rectangular earthen mound surrounded by a ditch, 1 metre wide and 0.3 metres deep. The foundation layer of stones is visible in places. One of a series of mounds on the right bank of Spanish Lake. SX5815 6461. Dimensions 12.5 metres by 6 metres by 1.0 metre high.

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

Visible on the aerial photograph. Measures 14 metres by 7.5 metres.

Ordnance Survey, 2015, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV357601.

Depicted on the modern mapping.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UP-HT2 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(11/03/2020) Condition assessed as Moderate; vegetation growth is main damage agent.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Image taken during March 2020 visit.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey

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