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Summary

Set into a stonefaced wall are a pair of slotted gateposts.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork remains of part of the Bronze Age parallel reave system as well as medieval ridge and furrow and leat supplying Hartyland Farm

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NW175
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 876235
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/278

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• GATE PIER (Constructed, Post Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1540 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))

Full description

Worth, R. H., 1953, Dartmoor, 362-7 (Monograph). SDV231148.

Greeves, T. A. P., 1983, Middle Merripit Survey Drawing (Plan - measured). SDV321106.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(18/07/1989) SX 64537991. Set into a stonefaced wall are a pair of slotted gateposts. The N post is 1.3m high, 0.35 wide at the base tapering to 0.25m at the top and 0.3m to 0.2m thick. Set in its S face are three slots 0.04m deep, in the form of inverted L's and one straight slot at the top beneath a small drilled hole. Worth (1953) refers to these as 'type B' and dates slotted gateposts to pre-1800 and probably much earlier). Its opposing post 1.3m high, 0.4m wide at maximum, has five rectangular slots on its N face (of Type A2).
SX 64547912. A few metres to the NE also in a field wall is a similar 'type B' post. It is 1.4m high, 0.4m to 0.35m wide and 0.30 to 0.15m thick with four slots in the E face. Two iron gate hangers are set in its N face.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8648 - Middle Merripit Farm, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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