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Summary

Elements of medieval and later enclosures have melded with the prehistoric reaves to form large fields on Horridge Common. Two long sections of parallel reave have been reinforced with earth and had ditches added to them, and a fresh section of curving bank and ditch has created an additional field.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019603: Coaxial fields, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Halshanger and Horridge Commons, forming part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field system
• SHINE: Earthworks and stone walls of a Bronze Age parallel reave system on Mountsland, Halshanger and Horridge Commons, comprising the remains of a field system, hut circle settlements, enclosures and cairns, and surface remains of 19th century Hemsworthy Mine

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77SE/235
• Old SAM Ref: 28774
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD SYSTEM (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, 1320 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1960-1966, SX77SE1 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV315180.

17/5/1960 There is a superimposition of probable medieval and modern field boundaries upon early fields apparently contemporary with the huts, and the whole is similar to the settlement at Foales Arrishes. This one is on Horridge Common.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Interpretation). SDV319854.

Visible on aerial photographs and recorded on map overlay.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152342, 1/4/1999 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Historic field system on Horridge Common.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume One - The East, Maps 4-6 (Monograph). SDV299725.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Fields are visible on the aerial photography. Map object based on this source.

Newman , P., 2015, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, 59, figure 21 (Report - Survey). SDV359145.

Medieval field banks on Horridge Common. Elements of medieval and later enclosures have melded with the prehistoric reaves to form large fields on Horridge Common. Two long sections of parallel reave have been reinforced with earth and had ditches added to them, and a fresh section of curving bank and ditch has created an additional field. Condition is stable but mostly covered by gorse. SX75650
74700.
Depicted on plan. Map object based on this source.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6836 - Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape survey

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