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Summary

Tin mill. Brisworthy burrows, (mill park). One wall which is built into the adjacent ground is still over 1.83m high. The house suffered considerably when a small cottage was built near it recently. No mould stone has been found. The mortar stones formerly in the house have disappeared but one remains outside and has two mortars. There was a stone in the house previously, now lost, but was described as a furnace base, but may have been an incomplete feeding shute (worth, 1940).

Summary from record MDV62638:
Site of 'brisworthy hamlets tinners mill' on the river plym (bodman).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56SE262
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1468887
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/85/2
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/178
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX56SE27

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• TIN MILL (Unknown date)
• BLOWING HOUSE (XVI - 1501 AD (Between) to 1600 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV226352.

Des=greeves, t. /list of known devon tin mills c.1450-c.1750/(1981)no.12(in smr).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV226353.

Des=ta 528,mill park.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV226354.

Worth, r. H. /tpi/17(1925-1926)121/the moorland plym 36 years after.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV226355.

Des=pwdro/72/1033.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV226356.

Greeves, t. A. P. /tda/119(1987)155/the great courts or parliaments of devon tinners 1474-1786.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV226357.

Des=os 6"(1906)112se. 'blowing house (remains of)' indicated on os 6" (1906) and os 6" (1954) (os).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV226358.

Greeves, t. /an assessment of dartmoor tin working/(1990)39/in smr. Field evidence. Tithe map field name mill park (greeves).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV243337.

Des=bodman, m. /water-powered sites in devon/(1998)23,17/in smr.

WORTH, 1940, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV226343.

Tin mill. Brisworthy burrows, (mill park). One wall which is built into the adjacent ground is still over 1.83m high. The house suffered considerably when a small cottage was built near it recently. No mould stone has been found. The mortar stones formerly in the house have disappeared but one remains outside and has two mortars. There was a stone in the house previously, now lost, but was described as a furnace base, but may have been an incomplete feeding shute (worth, 1940).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV226348.

Worth, r. H. /tda/72(1940)220-1/the dartmoor blowing house.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV226349.

Worth, r. H. /tda/46(1914)285-6/stray notes on dartmoor tin working, pt.1.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV226350.

Worth, r. H. /tda/61(1929)401/stray notes on dartmoor tin working, pt.2.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX56SE27 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV226351.

(31/05/1950) No trace of this antiquity could be found, the area having been built over. Blowing mill documented 1560 and stamping mill (undocumented).

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

Not recorded.

Cranstone, D. + Hedley, I., 1995, Monuments Protection Programme: The Tin Industry Step 3 Site Assessments, Devon 2 (Report - non-specific). SDV357946.

Remains of a blowing house located to the northwest of the Brisworthy Burrows on the north bank of the Plym River. The blowing house was documented as extant in the 16th century. Fieldwork has recorded the north and east walls surviving to a considerable height, but the interior and surroundings have been disturbed by building work during the 1950s.

Bodman, M., 1998, Water-Powered Sites in Devon (Report - non-specific). SDV305931.

Site of 'brisworthy hamlets tinners mill' on the river plym (bodman).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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