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Summary

A possible Medieval or later tinworking comprising a deep northeast-southwest orientated linear excavation. An archaeological field survey in 1990 recorded a trench measuring between 5 metres and 7.5 metres wide with a maximum of 2 metres. Upcast debris accentuates the depth of the trench. Several heaps of small boulders and cobbles line the side of this feature and a wide embanked channel branches north off the main excavation and runs down the steep northeast facing slope. The debris on the sides of this feature are uncharacteristic of tinners openworks though the stone piles within the trench are suggestive of sampling and may indicate an unproductive prospecting site.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016691: Coaxial field system and prehistoric settlements at Kestor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NE109
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 907090
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/270
• Old SAM Ref: 28714

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• PROSPECTING PIT (Constructed, Early Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1066 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))
• TIN WORKS (Constructed, Early Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1066 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV276757.

Des=probert, s. /castor parallel system/1:2500 plan/(1991).

Untitled Source (National Monuments Record Database). SDV276759.

Nar=sx68ne109.

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

(16/10/1990) Centred SX 6694 8640. A possible tinworking site marked by a deep NE-SW orientated linear excavation. The trench measures between 5.0m and 7.5m wide and a maximum of 2.0m deep with upcast debris accentuating the depth. Several heaps of small boulders and cobbles line the side of this feature and a wide embanked channel branches N off the main excavation and runs down the steep NE facing slope.
The debris on the sides of this feature are uncharacteristic of tinners openworks though the stone piles within the trench are suggestive of sampling and may indicate an unproductive prospecting site. (See illustration card 1, SX 68 NE 94 No 36).

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 149154 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(02/04/1997) at sx66938639. A group of prospecting pits and trenches within the kestor coaxial field system (mpp).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8653 - Teigncombe Farm, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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