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Summary

This very fine pillow mound is located on a fairly steep north-east by south-west facing hillslope at SX 5829 6758. The mound is 14.9 metres long, 4.1 metres wide and 0.9 metres high. Externally the base of the structure is constructed of moorland slabs, boulders and stones; the upper part is a turf-covered earthen mound. The ditch, on the upper and long sides, is 2.5 metres wide and 0.6 metres deep. A slight ditch (0.7 metres wide and 0.3 metres deep) some 6.0 metres to the north-east appears to have been dug to deflect surface water from the site.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE147
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 438911
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/89
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX56NE147

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• PILLOW MOUND (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX56NE147 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV232455.

(01/06/1977) A pillow mound, situated at SX 58296758 on the west-facing slope on the west side of Ditsworthy Warren. The nearest pillow-mounds to it are the group 5000.0m. to the south-west. It is 14.5m. in length, 4.2m. wide and 0.8m. high, and is revetted with stones on sides and ends, the only one in this area to be so constructed. It is aligned with the slope, and encompassed by a shallow ditch.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on P.F.D.
Found during field investigation.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, Map 47 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Depicted by Butler.

Robertson, J. G., 1994, The Archaeology of the Upper Plym Valley (Post-Graduate Thesis). SDV139549.

Depicted by Robertson.

Fletcher, M. + Newman, P. + Probert, S., 1999, Drizzlecombe, Eylesbarrow, Ditsworthy and Hartor areas in the Plym Valley, West Devon (Report - Survey). SDV346268.

(05/07/1999) This very fine pillow mound is located on a fairly steep north-east by south-west facing hillslope at SX 5829 6758. The mound is 14.9 metres long, 4.1 metres wide and 0.9 metres high. Externally the base of the structure is constructed of moorland slabs, boulders and stones; the upper part is a turf-covered earthen mound. The ditch, on the upper and long sides, is 2.5 metres wide and 0.6 metres deep. A slight ditch (0.7 metres wide and 0.3 metres deep) some 6.0 metres to the north-east appears to have been dug to deflect surface water from the site.

Whitbourn, A., 2001, An Archaeological Investigation into features comprising, and associated with, Ditsworthy Warren, 79 (Report - Assessment). SDV360381.

Isolated pillow mound on a west-facing slope to the west of Ditsworthy Warren. Aligned down slope, revetted and enclosed within a ditch.

English Heritage, 2005, Survey Information (miscellaneous date) (Report - Survey). SDV345855.

Feature shown on survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2018, MasterMap 2018 (Cartographic). SDV360652.

'Pillow Mound' shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4966 - Survey of Drizzlecombe, Eylesbarrow, Ditsworthy and Hartor. The Eylesbarrow archaeological landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey: EH Project (Feb 2001 - Dec 2002)

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