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| HER Number: | MDV57355 |
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| Name: | STREAMWORKS in the Parish of Walkhampton |
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Summary
Vis=-/10/1996 (gerrard) plane table survey of only the streamworking earthworks in immediate vicinity of mill buildings indicate that both buildings are more recent than the streamwork. A series of parallel banks typical of those found within many dartmoor valleys are clearly visible. The group within the ne part of the survey area lie at right angles to the edge of the streamwork, but elsewhere they lie roughly parallel. The relative dates of these 2 distinct groups of earthworks could not be established with any certainty, although at one point the earthworks lying at right angles with the streamwork edge do appear to have been partially cut by a channel associated with the others. There does not appear any surviving trace of a separate dressing floor associated with the left bank mill because all of the earthworks fit comfortably within a streamworking context.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 574 716 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX57SE |
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| Admin Area | Dartmoor National Park |
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| Civil Parish | Walkhampton |
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| District | West Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | WALKHAMPTON |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/125/6
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- STREAMWORKS (Unknown date)
Full description
SEE SUBSHEETS 7-9, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV278916.
The 3 lode-back tinworks at black tor (see subsheets 7-9) are each associated with large numbers of prospecting features, most of which survive. However, the number of pits which clearly generated ore is relatively small. This contrasts strongly with the other side of the valley where substantial series of lode-back pits together with openworks + shafts indicate that tinworks at hart tor were more productive than black tor.
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV278918.
Gerrard, s. /meavy valley archaeology report 3/(1997)16/black tor falls tin mills.
Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV278919.
Gerrard, s. /meavy valley archaeology report/5(1997)24/black tor.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV278916 | Migrated Record: SEE SUBSHEETS 7-9. |
| SDV278918 | Migrated Record: |
| SDV278919 | Migrated Record: |
Associated Monuments
| MDV5020 | Related to: Northern stamping mill at Black Tor Falls (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- EDV7517 - Survey of Har Tor tin works
- EDV7522 - Survey of Black Tor
- EDV8351 - Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project
| Date Last Edited: | Apr 30 2021 1:25PM |
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