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Slotted gate posts & Slip
Gates,[1] also
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Stoops,[1][2] Yatsteads [3] or Stang
Pole Gateways[4] are
a form of simple gate that
once commonly in Europe controlled access to fields, lanes, etc. using removable
cross-bars and two fixed posts, often of stone.
Slotted Slotted gate posts on Youtube
Phil Newman's web site
(downloads)
Dave Parks' web site
Tim Sandles' "Bellever Antiquities" spreadsheet and under
2018-2-25 Lakehead Hill / Bellever Tor walk folder
Dartmoor News Index 1991-2008 - started 1986 Dartmoor Wally
Newsletter.
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Ref 1, above
Sheepfold - https://maps.nls.uk/view/106004846 OS Single Sheet 25 inch map 1885/1886 (at top left)
| Hartyland Farmstead, Dartmoor Forest | Dartmoor Forest |
| William Donaghy Memorial, Hartland Tor | Dartmoor Forest |
| Cultivation ridges north of Hartland Tor | Dartmoor Forest |
| Ridge and furrow north-west of Hartyland Farm *** | Dartmoor Forest |
| Building 60 metres east of Hartyland Tor | Dartmoor Forest |
| Hartland House, Dartmoor Forest | Dartmoor Forest |
| Cairn with cist on north-western side of Roundy Park enclosure | Dartmoor Forest |
| Roundy Park enclosure, 560 metres north-east of Archerton | Dartmoor Forest |
| 'The Sheepfold' and starch factory south-west of Stannon Tor | Dartmoor Forest |
| Possible cist near gate south of Roundy Park | Dartmoor Forest |
| Archerton Searchlight | Dartmoor Forest |
| Maggie Cross, Postbridge | Dartmoor Forest |
http://www.dartmoor-crosses.org.uk/postbridge.htm THIS IS GOOD .....
Research indicates that the Scotch Sheepfold was built in the early 19th century by two brothers, John and Thomas Hullett. Its intended use was as a factory in order to extract starch from locally grown potatoes. However, this venture never really got off the ground, as the quality of the soil and the moorland climate were not conducive to this type of agriculture. It was later converted into a sheepfold by a Mr Crawford. I�m not sure whether the name �Scotch Sheepfold� came about due to Mr Crawford being Scottish, or whether it was because he kept Scottish Blackface sheep. As a sheepfold, it was used to collect sheep together for counting, marking and as a shelter for lambing. It is possible that part of the sheepfold was used as living quarters, but I think it more likely that the owners lived at Stannon Cottage, just over � mile away to the south-east.
William Crossing (1902), One Hundred Years on Dartmoor, 5th edn., The Western Morning News Co. Ltd., Plymouth
"It was built by a Scotchman, who engaged extensively in sheep farming on the Moor, and was admirably adapted to its purpose. In the courtyard, the walls of which are of considerable height, and massive, were a number of covered pens, and at one end was a dwelling-house. There is no similar erection in any other part of the Moor. It was burned down a few years prior to 1830, and it is said that a child perished in the flames. In more recent years the late Mr. Lamb took Prince Hall and other properties on the Moor, and devoted his attention to the rearing of Scotch sheep on a large scale."
William Crossing (1914), Guide to Dartmoor - Southern and Western Secton 3rd edn, Whearon & Co. Ltd, Exeter
"the deserted building known as The Sheepfold, � m. distant. This
consists of a spacious courtyard, said to cover � of an acre. It is
oblong in shape, and the wall is of considerable height and
thickness.Every 9 or 10 feet a large granite post is let into it. The
entrance is at the N. end, and at the S. are the ruins of a
dwelling-house, one gable still standing. In the yard are a number of
small courts, or pens, which
I learnt many years ago had once been
roofed in, and were used as cattle shelters. The place was built by a
Scotchman for the purpose of
folding Scotch sheep, and was burned
down between 1820 and 1830, when, it is said, a child perished in the
fire."
Henery p.496 (bottom) - origin of the Sheepfold ..........................
Pastscape - Searchlight BatteryBXJ 2
Heritage Gateway - Results https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV6768&resourceID=104
MDV6768 Building in the Parish of Dartmoor Forest - "Beehive Hut" .....
Vis=est -/-/1999 (gerrard, s. ) beehive hut in great stannon newtake (mpp).
FLETCHER, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV10257.
It comprises a roofless corbelled building, which resembles an igloo in shape, constructed of dry stone boulder and stone walling. It measures approx 2.5m by 2m internally and the narrow entrance is approximately 1.5m long. The wall now stands to a height of 1.3m, its upper course has been rebuilt and stones are added occasionally by visitors. Debris from the collapsed roof has long since been cleared. The date and purpose of this rather elaborate building are not obvious, however it was most probably constructed by the tin workers, perhaps as a shelter, although it may have had an industrial function (fletcher).
Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Untitled Source (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV24.
Vis=19/6/1950 (os) small near circular hut containing oval chamber with entrance facing wsw. Constructed of flat stones and turf so placed that they slightly overlap each other and so form a sloping wall meeting at top to form dome shaped chamber but the roof has long since collapsed. Floor of hut is slightly below normal ground level. Owing to apparent contemporaneity with surrounding slag heaps it would appear to have been built by tinners.
Located within an area once the site of intensive tin streamworking activity it is built into a tinners spoil heap.
M BROWN
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On a large flat expanse of granite lying flush with the surface of the slope just east of the flat outcrops on the northern end of the summit of Hartland Tor is the cavity called the Devil�s Punchbowl, an almost perfectly cylindrical basin approximately 2 feet deep and 2 feet in diameter. It is rather surprising that Crossing did not incorporate this into his tales of the places on the Moor which are said to have been frequented by the Evil One, in the opening article in his series on Folklore Tales & Legends, now available in book form. For the name attached to the spot � and those of Devil�s Cauldron (q.v. grid square 5084) and Devil�s Kitchen (q.v. grid square 5583), both of which he also neglected to mention � could have been woven into his commentaries on the Devil�s Frying-Pan (q.v. grid square 5676) and the Loaf and Cheese (q.v. grid square 5589), two other places on Dartmoor where Lucifer is said to have alighted whilst on his culinary expeditions.
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Above the northwestern foot
of Hartland Tor stands a large rounded boulder bearing an inscription in
a sunken panel �
In Memory of
William Donaghy of
Liverpool
who died beside this stone
February 1914
The story attached to this
memorial is part of a mystery which remains unsolved to this day.
Donaghy disappeared from his native Liverpool in December of the
previous year, and his whereabouts and movements prior to being found
here on a cold February morning are unknown. His death was apparently
due to exposure, and foul play was not suspected, despite the fact that
there were a number of mysterious and unexplained circumstances
surrounding the case. To find the stone, continue along the bank of the
river upstream from Archerton Brook Foot � mis-named Braddon Lake by
O.S. � to the first tree, from which the boulder can be seen on the
slope to the northeast.
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The Sheepfold, also known
as the Scotch Sheepfold, is the best preserved of the more modern
livestock pounds on the open Moor, having been built in the early
nineteenth century. It was not originally designed for this purpose, but
began as a starch factory, an enterprise which soon foundered, and it
was subsequently taken over as a fold for Scottish Blackface sheep
during the period when these were first being introduced to Dartmoor
(q.v. grid square 6384) � which they evidently liked, for they decided
to stay!
The unique construction of
its walls, massive and well-built, with tall pillars set every few yards
to add support, make it a very imposing structure, demonstrating the art
of wall-building at its very best. Within the fold, a series of granite
posts stand about 6 feet from the perimeter wall ((P175)),
possibly once supporting a roof over what were probably smaller
livestock pens. There are also the scant ruins of a small building set
against the wall near the entrance in the southeast corner. An entrance
in the southwest corner was rebuilt during 1993-94, when the tops of the
walls were also levelled and consolidated ((P176)),
and the original main entrance was also unblocked revealing a pair of
massive gateposts and a paved floor in which lie two broken pieces of a
deeply cut inverted �L� slotted gatepost.
It should perhaps be
pointed out that the alternative name of Scotch Sheepfold is, strictly
speaking, incorrect. Scotch is a drink, and as far as I am aware there
is no evidence to suggest that there was ever a whisky distillery here
or anywhere else on Dartmoor! The name should really be Scots, or
Scottish, Sheepfold.
From my own archive researches I have not been able to discover anything about the earliest use of the property, and am only able to record that there were at least three mining families living here in the early 1830s � perhaps as lodgers? � Samuel Gifford or Giffard with his wife Lydia, Samuel & Mary Thomas, and Jacob & Fanny Stancombe, together with all of their children. Presumably the men worked either at Wheal Caroline (q.v. grid square 6680) or at one of mines in the Vitifer/Golden Dagger/Birch Tor complex (q.v. grid squares 6680, 6681 & 6781).
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A set stone inscribed �B�
is incorporated into the wall alongside the new gate, the letter facing
into the wall so only partly visible.
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Very faintly incised on the
southwest face of a large rounded boulder beside the wall is another
letter �B�.
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Another �B� set stone is
built into the wall near the crest of the slope.
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�B�
boundstone, a few yards from the wall corner.
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Another �B� is cut on the
upper surface of a large rectangular rock just south of the wall
junction.
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An indistinct �B� is
inscribed on the upper north edge of a large rounded earthfast boulder
over which the wall is carried.
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Just a short way below is the last �B� set stone alongside the wall, approximately 10 yards up from the junction with the now ruinous wall. Here the inscribed stones abruptly end for some reason, and it appears that they mark out an extension to the Hartland Newtake.
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Here is one of the best-preserved beehive huts on the whole of Dartmoor, though it can hardly be described as a �hidden� cache, which purpose most of them served, for it stands in a very prominent position on the valley floor. It is large enough ((P182)) to serve as a shelter for a lone walker.
Hemery .....
p.495 bottom - "The Scotch Sheepfold" - mentioned by Crossing in Guide and 100 years as built by a Scotchman (Crawford?)for folding Scotch sheep (Blackface?). Burned down 1820-1830 apparently with the death of a child. Originally built as a starch factory, from locally grown potatoes, but it failed.
Lyford - Forest of Dartmoor Tithe Map (1839) - Plot 296 - Stannon Farm - "Sheep Fold, Cot House and Garden".
Corn ditches originate from the time when Dartmoor was a
royal hunting area and there was a need to keep the King�s deer out of the
cultivated land. A stone revetted wall and external ditch faced onto the open
moor which deterred deer and other animals from jumping over, whilst the sloping
grassy bank on the inner face allowed those animals which had entered to exit
again without difficulty. Source:
http://www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk/aboutus/news/au-geninterestnews/au_crosspr10
"Kistvaen - A stone coffin, from from the Celtic cist, a chest, and maen, stone, v being used as a mutation of m. (Source: Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, 2nd edition 1912, reprinted 1990, page 22)."
Benchmarks: Types of bench mark - http://www.jochta.com/maps/types.htm
http://www.justusuk.com/2010/01/cut-marks-bolts-and-flush-brackets.html - bench marks, levels etc.
http://www.arc018.com/article/designing-the-angular-logo-part-1 - design of the top of trig. pillars
25 years since the last OS benchmark - blog post dated 1st May 2018
Surveying online slide show: https://www.slideshare.net/jswindel/land-based-surveysslideshare
Ordnance Survey blog - Bench mark or trig pillar: what's in a name?
Ordnance Survey blog - A History of the Trig Pillar - the BEST DIAGRAM *****
Plymouth Data
https://web.archive.org/web/20130821203233/http://www.plymouthdata.info/index.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20130705181132/http://www.plymouthdata.info/BurratorReservoir.htm
Snipe fly (Rhagio species - there are several)
Fox Moth caterpillar (common during July-October), up to 8 cm (3 inches) in length. It feeds on heather, bramble and bilberry. It will be fully grown by the autumn and will then hibernate, to emerge next spring to pupate without feeding, in March/April, and be on the wing in May. Click here for: a photo of an adult.
Cider mill: edge runner stone and basal pound stone
AK Hamilton Jenkin (1974), Mines of Devon: Vol. 1: Mines of Devon: The Southern Area, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, page 113
Bray Mrs (Anna
Eliza Bray or Mrs A. Eliza Bray) (1879), The Borders of
the Tamar and Tavy, 2nd edn, Vols 1 & 2, Kent & Co, Paternoster
Row, London. Vol & pp?
Books written as
letters (each forms a chapter, 38 in total, in 2 vols) to
Robert
Southey, Lakes poet (1774-1843). Mrs Bray lived 1790-1883.
First published 1836, in 3 volumes, entitled: A description of
the part of Devonshire bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy.
She
compressed the work herself, leaving out material she considered of no
value to the current reader. Much of the book is material from her
husband, Mr. Bray's Journals -
Reverend
Edward Atkyns Bray (1778-1857).
Crispin Gill (1970), Dartmoor - A New Study, David & Charles, page 132.
Dave Brewer (2002), Dartmoor Boundary Markers, Halsgrove, p. 158.
J. Hayward (1991, reprinted 2009), Dartmoor 365, Curlew Publications, page 136.
Eric Hemery (1983), High Dartmoor, Robert Hale, London, page 126.
Kath Brewer (1997), The Railways, Quarries and Cottages of Foggintor, Orchard Publications, Chudleigh, Newton Abbot, map p. 81.
Helen Harris (1968, 1st edn), Industrial Archaeology of Dartmoor, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, page ??
Helen Harris (1986, 3rd edn), Industrial Archaeology of Dartmoor, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, page ??
Image � J Butler 1994. Reproduced by kind permission (ref. 29 Sept. 2012).
©Jeremy Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, 1993, Vol. IV, fig. 53.9, p. 30.
Butler 1993 Vol. IV, page 74 - format for any repeat reference
Jeremy Butler (1991), Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, Vol. 1 - The East, 10: Buckland Common and Pudsham Down, (fig. 10.1) pages 63-64.
Jeremy Butler (1991), Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, Vol. 2 - The North, 9: Hurston Ridge stone rows (figs.25.2,3), pages 30-31..
Jeremy Butler,(1994), Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Vol. 3 - The South-West, 3: Raddick Hill West enclosures and cairns (fig. 46.3), pages 55-56.
Jeremy Butler (1993), Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, Vol. 4 - The South-East, 2: Tristis Rock (fig. 54.1), pages 38-39..
Jeremy Butler (1997), Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities Vol. 5 - The Second Millenium B.C.
Kath Brewer (1998), The Railways, Quarries and Cottages of Foggintor. Orchard Publications, Newton Abbot.
Ken Ringwood (2013), Dartmoor's Tors and Rocks. University of Plymouth Press, Plymouth.
Mike Brown (2001) Guide to Dartmoor, CD-ROM, Dartmoor Press, Grid Square 5358 7473.
Paul Rendell (2007), Exploring Around Burrator - A Dartmoor Reservoir, The Dartmoor Company, Okehampton, page 24.
R Hansford Worth (1967), Worth's Dartmoor, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, pages 397-402.
William Crossing (1912, reprinted 2001) Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, Peninsula Press, Newton Abbot, page ???
W. Keble Martin (1969 edn), The Concise British Flora in Colour. Edbury Press, Plate 2.
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