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Summary

Remains of tinners building of 5.4 metres by 2.9 metres with walls 0.5 metres wide by up to 0.75 metres high east of Cut Combe Water and to the south-east of Little Kneeset

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018932: Tinners' building 680m north east of Fur Tor
• SHINE: Earthwork remains of medieval or later streamworking along Cut Combe Water

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX58SE10
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 440608
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58SE/20
• Old SAM County Ref: 555
• Old SAM Ref: 28735

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TINNERS HUT (Built, Early Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1066 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1995, 3373-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDV224714.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1979, SX58SE10 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV236838.

(21/07/1950) Oval shaped hut circle composed of heather covered stones and no visible entrance. The site resembles an early blowing house, but lacks the leat and seating for a wheel. It may therefore be a particularly early example. The site stands by a stream in a particularly remote part of the moor.
(13/09/1979) This is not a hut circle but a probable tinners' hut, and although no tin-streaming waste is visible in the immediate vicinity, workings may now be peat and marsh covered.
The nearest visible streaming is at SX 59358449 and SX 58588374.
The hut, (see illustration plan) is on the flat valley floor of Cut Combe Water but seems unlikely to be a blowing house because of its small size and the lack of any evidence of a leat and wheelpit.
Revised at 1:10 000 on MSD and at 1:100. See ground photograph.

Robinson, R., 1982, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1982 (Un-published). SDV345608.

Department of Environment Field Monument Warden site visit 26th August 1982.

Robinson, R., 1983, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1983 (Un-published). SDV345762.

(19/01/1983) Visited.

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

Not visible on Royal Air Force vertical aerial photographs.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152136 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(02/02/1999) Tinners' building 680 metres north-east of Fur Tor. Measures 5.4 metres by 2.9 metres. Long grass and moss together with some rushes. Waterlogged interior. Erosion within the doorway and against the outer face of the south-east wall. Bullets and rubbish within the building indicates its use for military training.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 110, Map 33, Site 7 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Tinners' hut '7' of circa 4.2 metres by 2.5 metres with an entrance on the north side located on the west side of the Junction of Cut Combe Water and a tributary.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1993-1998, Dartmoor Royal Forest Project (Report - Survey). SDV346608.

(28/07/1995) SX 59148365. The east-west oriented building measuring 5.0m by 2.2m internally is as described by Authority 3. the structure is relatively well preserved and is situated on a slight peaty shelf above the right bank of Cut Combe Water. The peat would appear to overlie tin streaming remains (SX 58 SE 37) some of which are visible 100m S of the site. Its position and state of preservation would suggest that its function was probably more linked to shepherding than to tinworking.

Ancient Monuments, 2000, Schedule notification (Schedule Document). SDV236837.

(07/06/2000) Tinners' building 680m north-east of Fur Tor. A small rectangular stone building believed to a tinner's hut, situated on a slight terrace overlooking Cut Combe Water. The building survives as a 0.5 metre wide drystone wall standing up to 0.75 metres high surrounding a rectangular area measuring 5.4 metres by 2.9 metres. Scheduled.

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

(19/08/2004) This feature is as described by previous authorities though it is heavily overgrown with rushes.

English Heritage, 2005, Survey Information (miscellaneous date) (Report - Survey). SDV345855.

Rectangular building shown on survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.

'Tinners Hut (Remains of)' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1018932 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

The monument includes a tinners' building situated on a slight terrace overlooking Cut Combe Water. The building survives as a 0.5 metres wide drystone wall standing up to 0.75 metres high surrounding a rectangular area measuring 5.4 metres long by 2.9 metres wide. A gap midway along the northern wall represents an entrance, whilst a recess in the southern wall may be the remnants of a cupboard. A raised platform adjacent to the western wall may represent a bench or base for a fireplace. This building was probably constructed and used as a shelter by tinners working at the nearby streamwork.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7620 - Okehampton Artillary Range
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8679 - Okehampton Range: Management Survey
• EDV8291 - Okehampton Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
• EDV8695 - Survey of Okehampton North Dartmoor Military Range

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