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Length of reave 290m north of Feather Tor is a prehistoric field boundary forming part of a coaxial field system on Whitchurch Common in Devon. The reave, a substantial stone-built linear boundary, extends approximately 290 metres in a northerly direction from Feather Tor and represents Bronze Age land division practices, dating to the second millennium BCE. This monument is significant as evidence of organised territorial and agricultural management during the Bronze Age, when communities across Dartmoor and its surrounding areas subdivided landscape into ordered field systems using parallel and perpendicular alignments characteristic of coaxial planning. The reave's physical structure, constructed from dry stone walling, survives as an elevated bank and forms a key component of the larger field system visible across Whitchurch Common, contributing substantially to understanding of prehistoric settlement and economic organisation in south-western Britain.
Length of reave 290m north of Feather Tor, forming part of a coaxial field system on Whitchurch Common is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020000. View the official record →
Length of reave 290m north of Feather Tor is a prehistoric field boundary forming part of a coaxial field system on Whitchurch Common in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020000.
Length of reave 290m north of Feather Tor, forming part of a coaxial field system on Whitchurch Common is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1020000.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow N of Cadworthy Wood (10 km), Vermin trap 520m SSW of Trowlesworthy Warren House forming part of Trowlesworthy Warren (10.6 km), Pillow mound 490m south of Trowlesworthy Warren House, forming part of Trowlesworthy Warren (10.6 km).
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Length of reave 290m north of Feather Tor, forming part of a coaxial field system on Whitchurch Common stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.