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Summary

Vis=15/8/1989 (rchm) set into a garden wall at hartyland on the n side of a garden gate is a single slotted gatepost 1.7m high, 0.4m wide and 0.3m thick (worths type a with the remains of 2 rectangular slots in its e face. It is probably an unfinished or damaged post and not in situ (rchm).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NW180
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 882582
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/299

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV218761.

Worth, r. H. /dartmoor/(1953)362;fig 104.

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

(15/08/1989) SX 64437952 Slotted gateposts.
Two slotted gateposts, not in situ, are set in a modern wall in an accessway between two enclosed gardens at Hartyland.
The E post 1.5m high and 0.2m thick is Worth's Type A (1953) having five rectangular slots on its S face. The second post 3.1m to the W is 1.2m high, 0.3m wide and 0.2m thick. It is of Worth's type B (1953) having four 'L' slots in its N face. Its top is broken.

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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