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Pillow mound 670m WNW of Longaford Tor is an artificial warren feature forming part of a rabbit warren complex situated on the western slopes of Longaford and Littaford Tors in Devon. The monument comprises an earthwork constructed to provide habitat and management infrastructure for the commercial breeding and harvesting of rabbits, a practice that became economically significant in medieval and early post-medieval England. Such pillow mounds, characterised by their distinctive raised, flat-topped forms, typically date from the medieval period through to the early modern era and represent an important form of land use intensification and resource management. This particular example survives as an archaeological feature within a broader warren system that demonstrates the historical exploitation of the moorland landscape for animal husbandry.
Pillow mound 670m WNW of Longaford Tor forming an outlying part of a rabbit warren on the western slopes of Longaford and Littaford Tors is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020878. View the official record →
Pillow mound 670m WNW of Longaford Tor is an artificial warren feature forming part of a rabbit warren complex situated on the western slopes of Longaford and Littaford Tors in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020878.
Pillow mound 670m WNW of Longaford Tor forming an outlying part of a rabbit warren on the western slopes of Longaford and Littaford Tors 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 1020878.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The south-eastern of two cairns on Eylesbarrow (9.5 km), Wheal Katherine, 235m west of Plym Ford, forming an outlying part of Eylesbarrow Tin Mine (9.6 km), Part of Eylesbarrow watershed reave (9.6 km).
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Pillow mound 670m WNW of Longaford Tor forming an outlying part of a rabbit warren on the western slopes of Longaford and Littaford Tors stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.