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Summary

Ruined building on down ridge. Vis=25/3/1967 (haynes). A small single room house 5.8m x 5.18m, with fireplace built in to the thickness of the wall. Attached to a field system of small and irregular enclosures. Vis=building with a possible square enclosure next to and associated with it. Within a field system, possibly medieval.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Part of the Dartmeet parallel reave system east of Down Ridge. Earthworks and walling remains of a Bronze Age field system adjoining the Venford Reave, with numerous hut circles, enclosures, cairns and a later medieval field system

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/199
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD)

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV231591.

Des=haynes, r. G. /ruined sites on dartmoor/(nd)35 plan/ms in smr. Ruined building on down ridge. Vis=25/3/1967 (haynes). A small single room house 5.8m x 5.18m, with fireplace built in to the thickness of the wall. Attached to a field system of small and irregular enclosures. Vis=building with a possible square enclosure next to and associated with it. Within a field system, possibly medieval.

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV231592.

Aph=nmr sx6672/3/166-170(19/5/1977).

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

Visible on 1977 NMR aerial.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8146 - Royal Commission Survey at Down Ridge and Swincombe
• EDV8632 - Sherberton Farm, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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