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Summary

Building 'J' at Challacombe Medieval settlement shown on 19th century and modern mapping but not present on earlier maps. Part of a mortarstone from tin stamping machinery, located among rubble in the ruins of this building.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1021395: Deserted medieval settlement at Challacombe

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NE121
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 915582
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NE/67/13

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BUILDING (XVIII to XIX - 1800 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.

Not shown on 19th century Tithe Map.

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Small rectangular building shown on 19th century map on the east side of the track.

Gover, J. E. B. + Mawer, A. + Stenton, F. M., 1932, The Place-Names of Devon: Part Two, 481 (Monograph). SDV337894.

Challacombe was mentioned as 'Chaluecombe' in 1481 and in the 16th century.

Griffiths, D. M. + Robinson, R., 1987, Challacombe: Manuscript Survey (Report - Survey). SDV290318.

Building 'j': a massive stony platform 19 metres by 7 metres by up to 1.4 metres high, the east end obscured by a woodpile. Sections of the east end and south side walls survive, 0.75 metres thick and up to 1 metre high, together with an internal partition wall. Rubble on the platform includes a mortarstone from tin stamping machinery. No structure is shown here on the Tithe Map. This building does not relate to any of the 5 tenements known from the early 17th century onwards. If it is a dwelling it may relate to further vanished tenements.

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

(17/08/1990) Building 'J' at Challacombe Medieval settlement is a stony platform 19 metres by 7 metres. Sections of the east end and south side walls survive along with an internal partition wall.
SX 6939 7964: Part of a mortarstone from tin stamping machinery, located among rubble in the ruins of a building of the Medieval settlement of Challacombe (SX 67 NE 4).
The stone is a broken granite block 0.95m long, 0.55m wide and 0.3m deep with two circular, dished depressions 0.25m and 0.35m in diameter and 0.11m and 0.15m deep. Mortarstones are the stones on which tin ore was crushed by vertically-mounted hammers driven by waterwheels.

Agricultural Development Advisory Service, 1991, Challacombe Farm Postbridge, Devon (Duchy Farms Project), 26, Map D1 (Report - Assessment). SDV356546.

Building 'i' a ruined building represented by a stony platform with the remains of an internal partion wall.

Pattison, P., 1999, Challacombe Revisited, 64 (Monograph). SDV359495.

Shown as 'Building 9' on plan of the shrunken hamlet at Challacombe. The platform is shown to extend beyond the later building.

Ordnance Survey, 2016, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359352.

Small rectangular building with internal division shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2016, National Heritage List for England, 1021395 (National Heritage List for England). SDV359353.

The monument, which falls into two areas, includes a deserted Medieval settlement situated immediately north of the present day farmhouse at Challacombe. The settlement includes at least seven separate buildings set alongside a north-south aligned track. All of the buildings survive at least in part, as standing granite walling, although many are also composed of earthworks where the walling has collapsed. The settlement continued in use into the post-medieval period and some of the earlier longhouses were altered during this time. The earliest documentary reference to this site is in 1481 when it is referred to as Chalvecombe and by 1613 there were five separate tenements which continued in use until at least 1880.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds

• FDV7748 - MORTAR (VESSEL) (Early Medieval to Early 20th Century - 1066 AD to 1901 AD)

Associated Events

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

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