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Summary

A vegetation-covered, silted U-shaped channel averaging 1.2m wide and 0.3m deep with a slight upcast bank up on 1.4m wide and 0.5m high on the downslope side.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1021394: Medieval strip fields, tinworks, prehistoric settlements, and a cairn on the lower western slopes of Hamel Down

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68SE155
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 917868
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/317

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• LEAT (Constructed, Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD (Between) to 1899 AD (Between))

Full description

National Monuments Record, 1977, SX6980, 1/33 (Aerial Photograph). SDV245035.

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

(17/07/1990) SX 6972 8010: A leat or drain on the W slope of Hamel Down.
A vegetation-covered, silted U-shaped channel averaging 1.2m wide and 0.3m deep with a slight upcast bank up on 1.4m wide and 0.5m high on the downslope side.
It runs from SX 6976 8002, a ditch between fields of field system SX 67 NE 111, diagonally across the contours to the edge of a stream gulley at SX 6967 8025, a fall of c.27m. It cuts through lynchets of the system but there is no other dating evidence.
Its purpose is unclear: although possibly connected with tinning, the evidence for this along the stream is meagre. It could have collected surface water from the fields and delivered it back up the valley into the stream, thence to the West Webburn, to augment supply to tinning operations in the valley bottom. For leats of this sort see SX 68 SE 156 and 157.
It could also be a simple drainage channel.
Visible on A.P's. Surveyed at 1:2500 with SX 67 NE 111.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015 onwards, 2015 onward Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV362959.

Visible.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8658 - Challacombe, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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