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Summary

See sx67ne/33 for details of history etc of challacombe field system; vestiges of open field system with strip lynchets. Medieval field system containing strip lynchets arranged end to end in furlong blocks parallel to the contours or up and down the slope (os).

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

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NE/1
• Old SAM County Ref: 518

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD SYSTEM (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Full description

Gawne, E., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV144291.

On the gentler eastern slope are decayed banks with ditch on upper side and lynchet below (gawne).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV148.

See sx67ne/33 for details of history etc of challacombe field system; vestiges of open field system with strip lynchets. Medieval field system containing strip lynchets arranged end to end in furlong blocks parallel to the contours or up and down the slope (os).

BONNEY IN GREGORY, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV298922.

On the east side of the valley the furlongs are divided by substantial banks with stone faces and ditches running up the hillside (bonney in gregory).

DNH:29/11/1994, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV298929.

Smc granted concerning backfilling of a hole in building 8 (dnh:29/11/1994).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV298930.

Osa=sx67ne4. Vis=27/4/1953 (os) on steep west flank of hamel down are traces of field banks and of lynchets.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV298931.

Gregory, k. J. + ravenhill, w. D (ed)/exeter essays in geography/(1971) 83-91/d. J. Bonney:former farms and fields at challacombe.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV298932.

Shorter, a. H. /antiquity/12(1938)183-189/ancient fields in manaton parish.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV298933.

Gawne, e. /tda/102(1970)56-62/field patterns in widecombe parish.

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV298934.

Aph=raf 541/540/3146-3147(1/6/1950).

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV298935.

Aph=nmr sf1748/261-271(23/4/1980).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV298936.

Dnh/smc letter(29/11/1994)/in smr.

Untitled Source (National Monuments Record Database). SDV298937.

Nar=sx67ne111.

Untitled Source (National Monuments Record Database). SDV298938.

Nar=sx67ne46.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV298939.

Des=rchme/duchy farms, devon.

SMR, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV3670.

Vis=30/10/1991 (smr) a management agreement has been drawn up between the dartmoor npa and the farmer (smr).

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Field system comprising fine examples of strip fields within the enclosed land. Appears to post-date the openworks as the openworks sx67ne/216, sx67ne/218, sx67ne/219 appear to form the field boundaries. Visible on RAF 1950 and NMR 1980 aerials.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8658 - Challacombe, Duchy Farms Survey

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