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LEGISTOR WARREN

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A Post Medieval warren containing forty-nine pillow mounds with lengths ranging from 10m to 78m and widths varying from 3.5m to 9m. Some of the mounds are revetted and all are ditched.

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SX 574653. A group of 37 pillow mounds, some up to
130 feet in length. (1)

Pillow mounds scattered over a wide area centred at SX 572655. (2)

Legistor Warren (NAT). (3)

Legistor Warren, sometimes called New Warren, of 183 acres (Tithe
Map 1843). Probably always operated jointly with Trowlesworthy
Warren until recent times when it became an adjunct of
Ditsworthy Warren to which it was connected by a clam bridge over
the Plym.

It seems likely it was the second warren enclosed on this area,
hence the name New Warren. There is no Warren House. It is bounded
on the S. and E. by the Plym; on the N. and W. by a purpose built
rabbit proof wall, much of which is still in good order. On the N.,
the wall bends to avoid most of a group of longhouses (SX 56 NE 117)
but cuts through two of them, making use of the stone. The wall
is therefore probably late 14th century or more recent.

The Warren incorporates 48 buries (pillow mounds) including one
of the Moor's longest, 84 yards. The lower slopes of Legis are
drained by a complex system of ditches, presumably dug by warreners.
There are 10 vermin traps and 3 vermin houses.

The area of moorland known locally as "Legistor Warren" covers
about 65 ha (160 acres (d) rather than Haynes' 183) between 245
and 300m. O.D. Apart from the River Plym it is bounded by a
substantial drystone rubble wall, usually 1.8m. wide and 1.2m.
high.

It contains forty-nine pillow mounds, most at right angles to the
contours, with widely varying lengths ranging from 10.0m. to 78.0m.
and widths varying from 3.5m. to 9.0m; the heights are from 0.5m.
to 1.2m.

Some of the mounds are revetted; all are ditched and the majority
have 'tailed' ditches, (extending beyond the mound at the lower
end). A number of pillow mounds are within the prehistoric
settlement enclosures fringing the N. side of the Plym.
(SX 56 NE 69 & 70).

Vermin traps and the complex of drainage ditches, some of which
are 2.0m. wide and over 1.0m. deep, have not been surveyed.

Pillow mounds surveyed at 1:10 000 on M.S.D. (4,5)

Scheduled, National Number 22289. (6, 7)

Legis Tor Warren remains as described by Authority 5. The remains of warrening in this area are not limited to pillow mounds, drainage ditches and vermin traps but extend to an attempt to clear areas of clitter and to the construction of several small structures and enclosures.
The attempts at clearance are visible as small stone clearance heaps and the dumping of material on several of the hut circles in the area. Parts of the prehistoric settlements have also been reused in later periods as wittnessed by the small structures and crude enclosures recorded with monument 438698.
(8)

SOURCE TEXT

( 1) Medieval archaeology : journal of the Society for Medieval Archaeology

(C D Linehan) 10, 1966 Page(s)124-5,141

( 2) Vertical aerial photograph reference number

RAF/CPE/UK/2494 3131-2, 11-MAR-1948

( 3) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1954

( 4) Externally held archive reference

Typescript notes and plans (R J Haynes c 1970 (Plymouth City Library)

( 5a) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS Co Series 25"

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F1 NJA 20-JUN-77

( 6) Scheduled Monument Notification

07-JUN-2000

(7) Scheduled Monument Notification

Schedule amendment 29-May-2001

(8) Field Investigators Comments

Probert SAJ 18-MAR-2005 EH Field Investigation

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An almost complete vermin trap adjoining the S rock pile of Legis Tor. The trap consists of a complete set of in situ trap stones minus the mechanism....

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