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Summary

300 metre long section of the Eylesbarrow Watershed Reave scheduled as an individual section.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1017396: Part of Eylesbarrow Reave
• SHINE: Section of the Eylesbarrow Reave, a Bronze Age boundary work across Ringmoor Down, and adjacent Bronze Age cairns

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/279/3
• Old SAM Ref: 10629
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• REAVE (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Balaam, N. D. + Smith, K. + Wainwright, G. J., 1982, The Shaugh Moor Project: Fourth Report - Environment, Context and Conclusion, 248-50 (Article in Serial). SDV145845.

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

Recorded on aerial photograph survey overlay.

Fleming, A., 1988, The Dartmoor Reaves: Investigating Prehistoric Land Divisions, 39,40,44,56,107 (Monograph). SDV229071.

Other details: Figures 5, 22.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1991, Eylesbarrow watershed reave (Schedule Document). SDV346705.

Eylesbarrow Reave is a watershed reave which separates the watershed of the Plym from that of the Meavy. It extends from the Plym at Cadworthy Wood to the summit of Eylesbarrow, a distance of approximately 6 kilometres. Though the reave can be traced from end to end, there are now gaps along its length which result in its preservation in separate sections of unequal length.
This part emerges a few metres from the enclosure of Brisworthy Plantation, the building of which probably incorporates stone from the reave, and it runs north-east up the western slope of Ringmoor Down for a distance of approximately 300 meters. It is truncated at a gap which co-incides with the position of a cairn on the south-east side of the reave. The reave is composed of small stones and earth and is up to 2.0 meters in width and 0.4 meters in height. It is wider and higher at the south-western end, though this, and ditching along the south-east side and end is probably the product of later modification and work on the plantation intake. A recent track also crosses the south-western end. A stone alignment and cairn lie approximately 500 meters to the south-east of the reave. Other details: 10629.

Ordnance Survey, 2011, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV346129.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UPRM-13 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(05/06/2019) Condition assessed as good by volunteer recorders, although there is a considerable amount of gorse growth on the reave. Areas of bare earth also noted at pinch points.

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

Feature photographed in June 2019.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7443 - Condition survey of archaeological sites in Ringmoor Training Area
• EDV7569 - Condition survey of Ringmoor Down training area
• EDV8227 - Ringmoor Training Area: Monument Baseline Condition Survey

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