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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. Large mound measuring 34 by 8 metres (1.3 metres 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/268

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 H at SX5813 6468. Measures 34 metres by 8 metres by 1.3 metres high. The mound is retained by a drystone revetment which is visible along the eastern side and survives elsewhere as a buried feature. The surrounding ditch is 2 metres wide and 0.5 metres deep. A gully which may represent an animal run and or drainage ditch leads north from the eastern end of the mound before turning to run parallel with pillow mound 'I'.

National Trust and English Heritage, 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape, (102 394), page 95 (Report - non-specific). SDV166309.

One of a series of pillow mounds. Long substantial sub-rectangular earthen mound at SX5810 6468, at the base of which foundation stones are visible and west and east ends. It is surrounded by a ditch 2 metres wide and 0.4 metres deep. Ditch continues westwards to Spanish Lake. At eastern end the ditch has been cut into bank.

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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