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Summary

Leat taken of Yes Tor Brook near area of streamworks, running east-west across Walkhampton Common. Cuts through a prehistoric bank or reave south-east of enclosed settlement. A tinners leat that draws water from the upper reaches of Yes Tor Brook and conveys it to the edge of the enclosed land (SX56307284) of the Medieval farmstead. Surveyed 2007.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork and structural remains on Walkhampton Common including 19th century Swelltor and Foggintor Quarries, a section of the early 19th century Plymouth and Dartmoor Tramway, later converted to railway, also streamworks along the Yes Tor Brook

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SE240
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1461412
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/248
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/86/13/1
• Old SAM Ref: 24108(P)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• LEAT (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD (Between) to 1899 AD (Between))

Full description

National Monument Record, 1976, SX5672 (Aerial Photograph). SDV267145.

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

Leat visible on 1976 aerial photograph and recorded on map overlay.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152583, 21/3/2000 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Leat cutting through a boundary bank forming part of a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement at Yes Tor Bottom, 1120 metres east-north-east of Criptor.
Leat measuring 1 metre wide and 0.4 metres deep with an associated down slope bank being 1.8 metres wide by 0.3 metres high. This leat cuts through rubble bank (MDV62009) at SX56907274.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 22-23; fig 44.7 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, Map 44 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Leat depicted on Butler's map.

GetMapping, 1999 - 2000, Dartmoor 1999-2000 1:1250 Aerial Photography (digital) (Aerial Photograph). SDV345751.

Leat visible on the aerial photograph.

Fletcher, M. J., 2007-2008, Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project (Report - Survey). SDV359195.

(30/10/2007) A tinners' leat that draws water from the upper reaches of Yes Tor Brook (SX57007295) and conveys it to the edge of the enclosed land (SX56307284) of the Medieval farmstead. Surveyed at 1:2500 scale (Note; the course of the leat was not followed beyond this point during the 2007 survey).

Ordnance Survey, 2017, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359962.

Leat partly depicted on the modern mapping. Map object partly based on this source.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8351 - Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project

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