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Six pillow mounds in Crockern Newtake is a warren of artificial rabbit breeding structures located on the western slopes of Longaford and Littaford Tors in Devon. The pillow mounds, which are characteristic elongated earthwork features built to facilitate rabbit farming, form part of an outlying section of a larger warren complex and date to the medieval period. Such structures were constructed to provide suitable conditions for breeding and maintaining rabbit populations, which were valued as a source of meat and fur in medieval and early post-medieval England. The site's position on the exposed moorland terrain represents the type of marginal land that was often utilised for warren management during this period.
Six pillow mounds in Crockern Newtake 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 1020881. View the official record →
Six pillow mounds in Crockern Newtake is a warren of artificial rabbit breeding structures located on the western slopes of Longaford and Littaford Tors in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020881.
Six pillow mounds in Crockern Newtake 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 1020881.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn with a cist near the head of a southern tributary of Langcombe Brook (9.7 km), Cairn north-west of Ditsworthy Warren House (10 km), Pillow mound 730m north east of Hen Tor forming part of Hentor Warren (10 km).
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Six pillow mounds in Crockern Newtake 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.