Part of Eylesbarrow Reave

Scheduled area

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History & significance

Part of Eylesbarrow Reave is a prehistoric linear boundary or territorial marker located on Dartmoor in Devon. The reave, a characteristic feature of Bronze Age settlement patterns on Dartmoor, comprises a substantial earthwork consisting of a stone bank with associated ditch, which would have served to delineate land holdings or regulate movement across the moorland landscape. Dating to the Bronze Age, this monument forms part of a broader system of reaves that were constructed across Dartmoor during the second millennium before the common era, representing one of the most extensive organised landscapes of this period in Britain. The surviving section demonstrates the substantial engineering effort invested in creating these territorial divisions, which functioned alongside contemporary settlement sites and field systems to structure Bronze Age communities on the high moorland.

Part of Eylesbarrow Reave is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017396. View the official record →

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