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Summary

Leat visible on NMR 1976 aerial image at SX 6024 6240 extends SX 6049 6290 and runs off western edge of map sheet at SX 6000 6223. Cuts through an enclosure at SX 604 626.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/167
• Old SAM Ref: 24094(P)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV139047.

Aph=nmr sx6062/1,3(8/4/1976).

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

Leat visible on NMR 1977 aerial image at SX 6024 6240 extends SX 6049 6290 and runs off western edge of map sheet at SX 6000 6223. Cuts through an enclosure at SX 604 626.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., Des=mpp/133126. (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

vis=6/5/1993 (gerrard) post-medieval leat runs sx60406260-sx60396257 and cuts through the centre of a prehistoric enclosure. The leat leads from sx 60486289 to the whitehill yeo china clay works, 3.5 kilometres away. The leat channel lying within the enclosure measures 2m wide and 0.8m deep and the associated bank of material upcast during the cutting of the leat survives as a 1.9m wide and 0.5m high bank on the downslope side of the channel (mpp).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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