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Summary

On Whitchurch Common in a deserted site which includes a long-house with a cross passage and upper rooms as well as parts of other walls. The site is just above Merrivale Quarry leat and below the highway.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020089: Eluvial tin streamworks and prehistoric coaxial field system together with other archaeological remains on Whitchurch Common
• SHINE: Northern section of the leat that served the medieval manor houses of Grimstone and Sortridge

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SW20
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 440446
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SW/7
• Old SAM Ref: 22234

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• DESERTED SETTLEMENT (Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1539 AD (Between))
• LONGHOUSE (Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Longhouse is visible on the aerial photograph (RAF/CPE/UK/2149 3156-7).

Royal Air Force, 1961, 58/4424, F42.163 (Aerial Photograph). SDV280247.

Linehan, C. D., 1965, Deserted Sites on Dartmoor, Devon, 175 (Article in Serial). SDV217992.

SX 537749 On Whitchurch Common in a deserted site which includes a long-house with a cross passage and upper rooms as well as parts of other walls. The site is just above Merrivale Quarry leat and below the highway. Nearby are two hut-circles.

Linehan, C. D., 1966, Deserted Sites and Rabbit-Warrens on Dartmoor, Devon, Table 2 (Article in Serial). SDV307246.

Two buildings with enclosures.

Haynes, R. G., 1966-1969, Ruined Sites on Dartmoor, 149, visited 28/4/1966 (Un-published). SDV150434.

A simple longhouse without apparent division, probably cross-passage type. Surrounded by field system. Rectangular outhouse to north-west with enclosure attached. Also four curious excavations, dwellings?

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

Not visible on 1947 Royal Air Force vertical aerial photographs.

Newman, P., 1994, Fieldwork and survey at Beckamoor Combe 1994, 9-10 (Article in Serial). SDV236243.

Well defined rectangular earthwork incorporating vestiges of walling and-turf covered tumble. Associated enclosure walls extend from the Tavistock Road down to the tinworks where sections have been destroyed by later tinworking activity.

GetMapping, 1999 - 2000, Dartmoor 1999-2000 1:1250 Aerial Photography (digital) (Aerial Photograph). SDV345751.

Building visible.

White, P., 2013, Previously Unsurveyed Dartmoor Historic Farmsteads (Un-published). SDV352501.

Whitchurch Common is included in list; no further information provided.

Historic England, 2016, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV359353.

SX 53707489. The remains of a medieval farmstead, including a longhouse and three small paddocks. Scheduled.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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