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Summary

Remains of a medieval or later tinner's hut situated on the right bank of the Cherry Brook, 350 metres northeast of Lower White Tor. The hut comprises a levelled platform enclosed on three sides by coursed boulder revetments up to 0.6 metres high. The fourth, east, side is marked by a slight stoney rim. Internally the structure measures 4.2 metres by 2.5 metres. A probable entrance lies in the northeast corner. No obvious internal features were recorded.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NW105
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442797
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/321

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TINNERS HUT? (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD)

Full description

Le Messurier, B., 1979, Post-Prehistoric Structures of Central North Dartmoor. A Field Survey, 69 (Article in Serial). SDV269283.

SX 62207940. On right bank of the Cherry Brook in Hollowcombe Bottom are the outlines of a hut, internally 2.3m by 3.8m. It is built on the only flat ground in this steep valley. Possible tin streaming nearby.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX67NW105 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV246417.

(21/12/1979) No hut was located in the vicinity of the reference given where there is little stone and no evidence of tin streaming. Tinning is obvious a half mile downstream where the valley is broad but no hut was found in this area.

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

(13/07/1994) SX 62117958. A tinners hut located at the foot of a steep E-facing slope on the right bank of the Cherry Brook 350m NE of Lower White Tor. The remains consist of a levelled platform enclosed on three sides by coursed boulder revetments up to 0.6m high. The fourth, E, side is marked by a slight stoney rim. Internally the structure measures 4.2m N to S by 2.5m. A probable entrance lies in the NE corner. There are no obvious internal features.
Small isolated pockets of streamworking remains are visible on the marshy floodplain downstream from this structure.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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