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Summary

Remains of a tinners' hut shown on modern map in the streamworks in Watern Combe on the east side of Walla Brook. The rectangular building measures 3.2 m north to south by 1.9 metres internally with walls of coursed boulders and upright slabs 0.6 metres wide and a maximum 0.7 metres high. An entrance lies in the centre of the southern end. Outside the hut, to the south, is a small levelled area, possibly the site of a porch, measuring 1.2 metres north to south by 2.2 metres.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork remains of medieval or later streamworks in Watern Combe with remains of tinners' buildings along the Wallabrook

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NW35
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443757
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NW/62

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TINNERS HUT (Constructed, XV to Post Medieval - 1401 AD to 1750 AD)

Full description

Le Messurier, B., 1975, Ruined hut at sx 6265 8685 (Worksheet). SDV268799.

(31/05/1975) SX 6265 8685 Ruined hut located at the northern end of Watern Combe, above stream on east bank. It is saved from being a nonentity by its cupboard at its southern end (dimensions 0.45m wide, 0.24m high, 0.52m deep).
Floor of grass and stone. Possible door at southern end. Evidence of tin streaming nearby. Walls banked. Internal dimensions of hut 2.1m by 2.7m, walls maximum 0.75m high (inside), 0.60m high (outside), roughly 2m thick.

Le Messurier, B., 1979, Post-Prehistoric Structures of Central North Dartmoor. A Field Survey, 66 (Article in Serial). SDV269283.

SX 6265 8685. At north end of Watern Combe, above east bank of Walla Brook, a hut with internal dimensions 2.1m by 2.7m and a cupboard at the south end. Tin streaming nearby. Probably pre-1700.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX68NW35 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV363731.

(02/10/1979) SX 6263 8677. Situated among tin streaming waste tips are the scant remains of a probable tinner's hut. It measures 2.0m by 5.0m internally with a sub-division giving an inner room 2.0m by 2.9m with a cupboard in the south west wall. There is an entrance gap in the south side. The construction is a mixture of rubble, slabs and coursed drystone walling up to 0.6m high and 0.9m wide. (Extent of tin-streaming shown on 1:10 000 map). Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD. See ground photograph.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 213, Map 41, Site 'TH2' (Monograph). SDV219155.

'TH2' remains of a tinners' hut of 2.8 metres by 2.0 metres amidst the waste mounds within a gully on the east side of Walla Brook in Watern Combe. It has an entrance facing upstream towards a semi-paved track up which the tin must have been carried.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1993-1998, Dartmoor Royal Forest Project (Report - Survey). SDV346608.

(02/09/1993) SX 6263 8676. A tinners hut situated on the edge of streamworking remains on the right bank of the Walla Brook, 280m west of Watern Tor. The rectangular building measures 3.2m north to south by 1.9m internally with walls of coursed boulders and upright slabs 0.6m wide and a maximum 0.7m high. An entrance lies in the centre of the southern end. Outside the hut, to the south, is a small levelled area, possibly the site of a porch, measuring 1.2m north to south by 2.2m.
Dense heather in the south-western quadrant of the hut precluded the identification of the cupboard recorded by Le Messurier and the Ordnance Survey (both 1979).

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 2003-2004, Measured survey North Dartmoor Military Range Okehampton Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV350801.

(22/10/2003) Feature is as described in 1993.

English Heritage, 2005, Survey Information (miscellaneous date) (Report - Survey). SDV345855.

Rectilinear building shown on survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2020, MasterMap 2020 (Cartographic). SDV363413.

'Tinners' Hut (Remains of)' shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7620 - Okehampton Artillary Range
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8679 - Okehampton Range: Management Survey
• EDV8291 - Okehampton Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
• EDV8695 - Survey of Okehampton North Dartmoor Military Range

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