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Summary

Huntingdon tin mine on Buckfastleigh Moor was worked in the earlier 19th century.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthworks of Huntingdon Medieval Warren including pillow mounds, vermin traps and warren house, Bronze Age hut circles, enclosures, and the Huntingdon Barrow as well as old tin workings including Huntingdon Tin Mine, Gibby Beam and Wellabrook Girt

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NE/107
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TIN MINE (XVIII to XIX - 1800 AD (Between) to 1850 AD (Between))

Full description

Lysons, D. + Lysons, S., 1822, Magna Britannica. Devonshire (Monograph). SDV323771.

Unknown, 1859-1864, Unknown (Article in Serial). SDV350956.

Spargo, T., 1864, Mines of Cornwall and Devon (Monograph). SDV242422.

Spargo, T., 1866, Mines of Cornwall and Devon (Monograph). SDV228100.

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Huntington Tin Mine (Disused) marked on 1880s-1890s mapping.

Crossing, W., 1901, A Hundred Years on Dartmoor (Monograph). SDV350954.

Crossing, W., 1912 (1965), Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor (Monograph). SDV320981.

H. M. Stationary Office, 1929, Abandoned Mines (Unknown). SDV228098.

Huntingdon, Lydford. Devon Wheal Tor. Tin mine. Plan R 120 F M.R.C.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, 4272 (Aerial Photograph). SDV140289.

Ramsden, J. V., 1952, Notes on the Mines of Devonshire, 92, Figs. 1.93, 1.96 (Article in Serial). SDV60737.

Harris, H., 1968, Industrial Archaeology of Dartmoor, 194 (Monograph). SDV149229.

Huntingdon Mine is a remnant of workings which extended into the northern end of the parish from Buckfastleigh Moor. The mine was being worked early in the 19th century when it was known as Dean Wheal Tor, but was probably abandoned by 1815. It reopened in about 1864, small quantities of tin being obtained. The overgrown remains of two wheel houses (pits), parts of the courses of the leats which supplied them from the west wella brook, and sites of buildings can be traced. No adits or shafts are visible, but a line of funnel shaped pits may have been sunk for the purpose of exploring the lode, and possibly served to ventilate the mine.

The Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England Aerial Photograph Unit, 1985, The Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England Aerial Photograph Project (Interpretation). SDV340940.

Openworks run uphill to SX67456703 where they continue for a short distance as a line of trial pits.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour aerial photography for Dartmoor (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Pits visible on aerial photograph. Map object based on this source.

Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.

Huntingdon Tin Mine marked as disused on modern mapping. Map object based on this source.

Walter, N., July 2007, Letter, 7 (Article in Serial). SDV350957.

Huntington Warren Mine on the access track to Warren House with the remains of a possibly engine shaft.

Unknown, Unknown, Memoirs of the Geological Survey, 338 Devon, 349 Ivybridge (Report - Survey). SDV350955.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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