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Summary

This leat, a 130m long dry U-shaped channel at best 1.2m wide and 0.2m deep with an upcast bank 2.4m wide and 0.9m high on the downslope side, runs N from a mining adit at SX 6931 8023 to the top of a tinners' openwork at SX 6933 8037 [see SX 68 SE 146 for details].

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1021393: Medieval strip field system, tinworks, part of a prehistoric settlement, a cairn and reave on Challacombe Down

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68SE167
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 918030
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/329

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, 1/33-35 (Aerial Photograph). SDV245035.

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

(25/04/1990) SX 6932 8028: a short leat on the E slope of Challacombe Down.
This leat, a 130m long dry U-shaped channel at best 1.2m wide and 0.2m deep with an upcast bank 2.4m wide and 0.9m high on the downslope side, runs N from a mining adit at SX 6931 8023 to the top of a tinners' openwork at SX 6933 8037 [see SX 68 SE 146 for details].
Surveyed at 1:2500 with SX 67 NE 111.
Visible on A.P's.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

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

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