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Summary

A Miners' dry at Golden Dagger Mine. An archaeological field survey in 2002 located the building situated in a level area beside the track on the west side of the Redwater valley floor within Soussons Plantation. The building is rectangular on plan measuring approximately 18 metres by 4 metres and has three cells, each with an entrance on the southeast wall. It was constructed sometime between 1885 and 1904.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1021340: Tinworks, field systems, settlements, warren, cairns and a stone alignment at Headland Warren

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68SE403
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1362182
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/295
• Old SAM Ref Revised: 34499

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• MINERS CHANGING HOUSE (Constructed, XIX to Edwardian - 1885 AD (Between) to 1904 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

Rectangular building first depicted on the early 20th century map.

Broughton, D. G., 1968-1969, The Birch Tor & Vitifer tin mining complex (Article in Serial). SDV291528.

Depicted by Broughton 1968.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 21-22, Map 24 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Site '1' at Golden Dagger Tin Mine is a long narrow building divided into three rooms. This was the miners' 'dry'. Behind the building is a low roofed tunnel driven into one side of the gully leading to the adit level.

Newman, P., 2002, Headland Warren and the Birch Tor and Vitifer Mines (Report - Survey). SDV363213.

(25/07/2002) The Miners' Dry at Golden Dagger Mine. Sited in a level area beside the track on the west side of the Redwater valley floor within Soussons Plantation. The ruined rectangular building measures approximately 18m by 4m and has three cells, each with an entrance on the south-east long wall. Built sometime between 1885 and 1904 the building served mainly as a Miners' Dry though is likely to have served other purposes.

Ordnance Survey, 2022, Mastermap 2022 (Cartographic). SDV364674.

Building ruins shown on modern mapping

Devon Archaeological Society, Unknown, List of Soussons Archaeological Sites (Worksheet). SDV293249.

Old blacksmith shop and dry recorded. Elder trees growing in ruins.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7390 - Archaeological condition survey in Soussons Woods
• EDV7402 - Archaeological condition survey in Soussons Woods
• EDV7431 - Woodland Survey (1989-90) at Bellever, Soussons and other woodland parcels
• EDV7139 - Headland Warren and the Birch Tor and Vitifer Mines Survey (Ref: A1/20/2001, A1/34/2002)

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