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Summary

Discete area of alluvial streamwork earthworks to the west of the main streamworks along the River Bovey

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018926: Three agglomerated enclosures containing stone hut circles, a cairn cemetery, post-medieval fields and tinworks on Chagford Common
• SHINE: Extensive area of tin streamworks on the River Bovey related to tin working and the medieval field system around Lakeland Farm

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/377
• Old SAM Ref: 28728
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 149397 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Site visited on 29th January 1999. Alluvial streamwork earthworks on Chagford Common. A group of parallel bank earthworks. This site is unusual in that the earthworks are at two very different levels. One lies in the valley bottom and the second on a terrace above. The banks average 2.5 metres wide and 0.7 metres high. These earthworks are shown on a photograph in Butler, but are not shown on the accompanying map.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 33, Photo on page 116 (Monograph). SDV219155.

The earliest tinning activity in the valley of the Bovey was the streaming of the river bed. Turf covered mounds of pebbles accompany the river downstream for nearly two kilometres. The photograph shows a discete area of linear streamworks.

Passmore, A. J., 1997, Boveycombehedd, Chagford, Devon: an archaeological investigation of a Diachronic landscape, 23-28 (Post-Graduate Thesis). SDV360382.

Streamworks on the River Bovey.

Environment Agency WMS, 1998-2016, LiDAR DSM data JPEG image (1m resolution) (Cartographic). SDV360209.

Feature shown on Lidar data.

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

Area of earthworks shown on aerial photograph.

Historic England, 2018, National Heritage List for England, 1018926 (National Heritage List for England). SDV360653.

The monument includes three agglomerated enclosures containing stone hut circles, a cairn cemetery, post-medieval fields, an openwork, streamworks, and a tin mine situated on an east facing slope of Chagford Common overlooking the Walla Brook.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7505 - Boveycombehedd, Chagford: An Archaeological Investigation of a Diachronic Landscape

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