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Summary

An abandoned and disturbed leat is intermittently visible between the 401m and the 395m contours on the N flanks of Stonetor Hill and Shovel Down. The remains of a leat measuring on average 1.3 metres wide and 0.4 metres deep. There is a bank on the downhill side.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1017874: The North Teign coaxial field system (western part) and associated later remains at Shovel Down, Stonetor Hill and Long Ridge

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NE124
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 889665
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/284
• Old SAM Ref: 28663

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• LEAT (Constructed, II to Early 20th Century - 106 AD (Between) to 1901 AD (Between))

Full description

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

(15/08/1991) SX 64728578 to SX 64298625. An abandoned and disturbed leat is intermittently visible between the 401m and the 395m contours on the N flanks of Stonetor Hill and Shovel Down. Probably starting on the right bank of the W arm of the Stonetor brook its initial stages have ben disrupted by stone cutting activity and it is not visible until SX 64728578. It eventually becomes indistinct on the flat plain N of Shovel Down. On average it is 1.3m wide and is maximum 0.4m deep. It is flanked on the downhill side by a bank up to 1.5m wide and 0.5m high.
The function of this leat is uncertain though it seems likely to have been intended to serve the alluvial tinworkings in a marshy area flanking the North Teign River (SX 68 NE 118).
At SX 64888587 it cuts a late 18th or 19th century boundary bank (SX 68 NW 25) and a 30m length E of SX 65008585 was probably laundered over the deep workings along the E arm of the Stonetor Brook (SX 68 NE 68).

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 144066, 1997 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Leat leading around northern slopes of Stonetor Hill and Shovel Down.

Probert, S. A. J., 1991, Shovel Down Survey (Report - Survey). SDV359365.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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