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Summary

Alignments and clusters of tin pits on the north slope of Cramber Tor. The main alignment is oriented approximately north-west to south-east, with two other alignments converging to the south-east on separate orientation. The majority of the pits are between 2 and 4 metres diameter with a few larger examples of up to 12m diameter. Each pit has a crescentic collar of spoil on the downslope side. An earthwork reservoir is sited amid the pits at SX 5848 7139. It comprises a hollowed cutting with a retaining bank on the downslope side. The cutting is 26m long and the bank or dam is approximately 11m wide and up to 2m high. A narrow channel leads from an opening into the bank for 55m towards the valley. The reservoir is likely to have been to supply the valley floor streamworks.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020129: Tinworks and other archaeological remains in the Meavy valley at Stanlake, Black Tor, Hart Tor and Cramber Tor
• Scheduled Monument 1020129: Tinworks and other archaeological remains in the Meavy valley at Stanlake, Black Tor, Hart Tor and Cramber Tor
• Scheduled Monument 1020129: Tinworks and other archaeological remains in the Meavy valley at Stanlake, Black Tor, Hart Tor and Cramber Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SE227
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1450265
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/224
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/423
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/425
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/426
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/432
• Old SAM Ref: 24106
• Old SAM Ref: 24106
• Old SAM Ref: 24106

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• EXTRACTIVE PIT (Constructed, Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD (Between) to 1900 AD (Between))
• PROSPECTING PIT (Constructed, Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD (Between) to 1900 AD (Between))
• STREAMWORK (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD (Between) to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2149, 4436 (Aerial Photograph). SDV282746.

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

Leat visible.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152528, 152538-9, 152540, 152550 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

MPP 152528: (01/05/1997) SX 5848 7131 Lode back tinwork on Cramber Tor.
MPP 152538 (16/03/2000)SX 5843 7166 Prospecting trench 470m south-east of Hart Tor.
MPP 152539: (16/03/2000) SX 5842 7162 Group of lode back and prospecting pits 500m SE of Hart Tor.
MPP 152540: (16/03/2000) At SX 5875 7128 lode back tinwork and associated prospecting pits 970m south-east of Hart Tor.
MPP 152550: (16/03/2000) SX58747128 Prospecting trench associated with a tinwork 970 metres south-east of Hart Tor.

Gerrard, S., 1998, Hart Tor Tinworks (Meavy Valley Archaeology Site Report 10), 9; fig 4 (Report - Survey). SDV360974.

Newman, P., 2006, Cramber Tor Training Area Archaeological Field Investigation (Report - Survey). SDV233640.

(01/08/2006) Alignments and clusters of tin pits on the north slope of Cramber Tor. The main alignment is oriented approximately north-west to south-east, with two other alignments converging to the south-east on separate orientation. The majority of the pits are between 2 and 4 metres diameter with a few larger examples of up to 12m diameter. Each pit has a crescentic collar of spoil on the downslope side. An earthwork reservoir is sited amid the pits at SX 5848 7139. It comprises a hollowed cutting with a retaining bank on the downslope side. The cutting is 26m long and the bank or dam is approximately 11m wide and up to 2m high. A narrow channel leads from an opening into the bank for 55m towards the valley. The reservoir is likely to have been to supply the valley floor streamworks.

Probert, S., 2013, Cramber Tor Survey data (Cartographic). SDV361430.

Shown on the survey data.

Probert, S. A. J., 2017, A Condition Survey of the Archaeological Sites of the Cramber Tor Training Area, Devon, 2017 (Report - Survey). SDV360392.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7382 - Condition Survey of the Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV7517 - Survey of Hart Tor tin works
• EDV8351 - Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project
• EDV8711 - Condition Survey of the Cramber Tor Training Area

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