Principal Archaeological Landscape: Larkbarrow and Tom's Hill (25)
Authority | Exmoor National Park Authority |
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Date assigned | 01 January 2011 |
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Date revoked |
Location
The area is a block of moorland within the former Royal Forest of Exmoor. It is located near to the eastern Royal Forest boundary. Long Combe runs out of the centre of the PAL with Chalk Water running out northwards.
Description of Archaeology
The area contains two 19th century relict farmsteads and their relict field systems, water management systems and peat cutting. These farms were created by the Knight family in the mid 19th century as part of the reclamation of the Royal Forest. A sheepfold on Kittuck Meads also dates to the same period. There are also prehistoric remains in the form of cairns and standing stones, and evidence of Mesolithic flint knapping activity beneath and adjacent to Larkbarrow Farm. The farm buildings and surrounding landscape were used for artillery training during World War Two and as such the farm buildings today survive as ruins. There is also a valley mire to the south of the ruins of Larkbarrow Farm which has high palaeo-environmental potential.
Principal significance
Larkbarrow is especially significant because of the preservation and completeness of the layouts of two Knight farms and their associated infrastructure. This includes field gutters, peat cutting, field boundaries (some with remnant grown out hedging), associated ballast quarries for the construction of the boundaries and the ruined farm buildings themselves. The survival of earlier prehistoric features, particularly the hunter gatherer site by Larkbarrow farmstead, in close topographical association with the valley mire makes this area of Exmoor very unusual.
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Location
Grid reference | Centred SS 8159 4294 (2303m by 3014m) |
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Map sheet | SS84SW |
Related Monuments/Buildings (149)
- Possible Prehistoric Standing Stone or Rubbing Stone on Larkbarrow (Monument) (MEM24497)
- 19th Century agricultural 'improvement' earthworks on Madacombe (Monument) (MMO2499)
- 19th Century boundary bank northeast of Larkbarrow (Monument) (MSO10171)
- 19th Century clearance cairn on Swap Hill (Monument) (MEM15396)
- 19th Century clearance cairns west of Larkbarrow Farmhouse (Monument) (MEM15394)
- 19th Century contour leat from Great Buscombe to Swap Hill (Monument) (MSO7020)
- 19th Century drainage ditches on Swap Hill (Monument) (MMO2459)
- 19th Century drainage system around Long Combe head (Monument) (MMO2498)
- 19th Century drainage system at Beckham (Monument) (MMO2476)
- 19th Century drainage system on Swap Hill (Monument) (MMO2497)
- 19th Century enclosure bank northwest of Larkbarrow Farm (Monument) (MMO2553)
- 19th Century field boundaries north of Larkbarrow (Monument) (MSO12214)
- 19th Century field gutter system, Larkbarrow (Monument) (MSO7028)
- 19th Century leat north of Tom's Hill Farm (Monument) (MMO2543)
- 19th Century leat northeast of Larkbarrow Farmhouse (Monument) (MMO1237)
- 19th Century peat cutting north of Larkbarrow Farm (Monument) (MMO2534)
- 19th Century peat cutting northeast of Larkbarrow Farm (Monument) (MMO2533)
- 19th Century peat cutting northwest of Larkbarrow Farm (Monument) (MMO2541)
- 19th Century peat cutting on Kittuck Hill (Monument) (MMO2535)
- 19th Century peat cutting on Madacombe (Monument) (MMO2518)
- 19th Century peat cutting on Madacombe (Monument) (MMO2519)
- 19th Century peat cutting on southern slopes of Swap Hill (Monument) (MMO2462)
- 19th Century prospecting pit on Swap Hill (Monument) (MSO10157)
- 19th Century prospecting pit or quarry northeast of Larkbarrow Corner (Monument) (MSO10155)
- 19th Century prospecting pit southwest of Larkbarrow Farm (Monument) (MSO10161)
- 19th Century prospecting pit west of Larkbarrow (Monument) (MSO10173)
- 19th Century prospecting pits south of Larkbarrow Farmhouse (Monument) (MMO1232)
- 19th Century quarries southeast of Larkbarrow (Monument) (MSO10168)
- 19th Century quarry at Larkbarrow Corner (Monument) (MSO10154)
- 19th Century quarry east of Larkbarrow (Monument) (MSO10166)
- 19th Century quarry east of Larkbarrow Farmhouse (Monument) (MMO1235)
- 19th Century quarry north of Larkbarrow Corner (Monument) (MMO1230)
- 19th Century quarry south of Larkbarrow Cottage (Monument) (MSO10164)
- 19th Century quarry southeast of Larkbarrow (Monument) (MSO10156)
- 19th Century quarry southeast of Larkbarrow (Monument) (MSO10167)
- 19th Century quarry southwest of Larkbarrow Cottage (Monument) (MSO10162)
- 19th Century quarry southwest of Larkbarrow Cottage (Monument) (MSO10163)
- 19th Century quarry west of Larkbarrow Farm (Monument) (MSO10175)
- 19th Century ridge and furrow west of Larkbarrow Farm (Monument) (MMO2552)
- A quarry with associated spoil heaps, of probable ... (Monument) (MMO2542)
- A sheepfold, Wap Hill.... (Monument) (MSO7025)
- A small cairn on the north edge of Beckham, 3m in ... (Monument) (MSO6877)
- A small quarry with associated spoil heaps on aeri... (Monument) (MMO2546)
- An earthwork bank is visible on aerial photographs... (Monument) (MMO2545)
- Bronze Age burial cairn northeast of Kittuck Meads stone setting (Monument) (MSO6887)
- Cairn, Beckham, Exmoor (Monument) (MSO11022)
- Contour Leat, Long Combe (Monument) (MSO7047)
- Drainage Ditches, Beckham and East Pinford Hill (Monument) (MMO2473)
- Drainage System, Beckham (Monument) (MMO2475)
- Exmoor firing range (Monument) (MSO7776)
- Exmoor Royal Forest (Monument) (MEM22088)
- Field Boundary, Beckham (Monument) (MSO6869)
- Kittuck Barrow, or site of Kite Oak boundary marker (Monument) (MSO6855)
- Kittuck Hill Stone Setting (Monument) (MSO6881)
- Kittuck Meads Sheepfold (Monument) (MSO7040)
- Land Drainage System, Trout Hill, East and West Pinford, Exmoor (Monument) (MSO10399)
- Lark Barrow (Monument) (MSO6734)
- Larkbarrow Cottage and associated structures (Monument) (MSO7027)
- Larkbarrow Farm, Larkbarrow (Monument) (MSO7018)
- Late Mesolithic flintworking site at Larkbarrow Farm (Monument) (MSO6853)
- Leat, South of Tom's Hill Farm (Monument) (MMO2544)
- Leat, Tom's Hill (Monument) (MSO7049)
- Medieval or post-medieval peat cutting on Swap Hill (Monument) (MMO2489)
- Mound, Beckham (Monument) (MSO7021)
- Mound, Beckham (Monument) (MSO7022)
- Mounds and depressions, Beckham, Exmoor (Monument) (MSO10998)
- Mounds and depressions, Beckham.... (Monument) (MSO7029)
- Natural feature at Three Combes Foot (Non-antiquity) (MSO10192)
- Open Land Drains, Beckham (Monument) (MSO10379)
- Peat cutting on Manor Allotment (Monument) (MMO2536)
- Peat Cutting, Kittuck Mead (Monument) (MMO2520)
- Peat Cutting, Swap Hill (Monument) (MSO10402)
- Possible late prehistoric enclosure east of Manor Allotment (Monument) (MMO2548)
- Possible late prehistoric enclosure on Swap Hill (Monument) (MMO2464)
- Possible Post Medieval Hollow Way on Madacombe (Monument) (MEM24505)
- Possible post-medieval hollow way south of Tom's Farm (Monument) (MEM24522)
- Possible prehistoric burial cairn on Kittuck Hill (Monument) (MSO10144)
- Possible Prehistoric Burial Cairn on Kittuck's Hill (Monument) (MEM24511)
- Possible Prehistoric Burial Cairn on Kittuck's Hill (Monument) (MEM24512)
- Possible Prehistoric Cairn on Kittucks Hill (Monument) (MEM24518)
- Possible Prehistoric Circular Enclosure on Kitticks Mead (Monument) (MEM24502)
- Possible Prehistoric Standing Stone on Kittucks Mead (Monument) (MEM24492)
- Possible Prehistoric Standing Stone overlooking Madacombe (Monument) (MEM24504)
- Possible Second World War Target Mound South of Tom's Farm (Monument) (MEM24521)
- Possible Second World War Target on Kittuck's Hill (Monument) (MEM24513)
- Possible Second World War Target on Kittuck's Hill (Monument) (MEM24514)
- Possible Second World War Target on Kittuck's Hill (Monument) (MEM24515)
- Possible Second World War Target on Kittuck's Hill (Monument) (MEM24516)
- Post-medieval contour leat above Long Combe (Monument) (MSO7046)
- Post-medieval contour leat at Long Combe (Monument) (MSO7048)
- Post-medieval ditches at Kittuck Hill (Monument) (MMO2539)
- Post-medieval land drainage system at Elsworthy (Monument) (MSO10400)
- Post-medieval or modern linear feature south of Larkbarrow Farm (Monument) (MMO1229)
- Post-medieval or modern trench north of Larkbarrow Farm (Monument) (MMO1228)
- Post-medieval peat cutting on Swap Hill (Monument) (MMO2495)
- Post-medieval peat stacks north of Larkbarrow Farm (Monument) (MSO10172)
- Post-medieval quarry on Swap Hill (Monument) (MSO10159)
- Post-medieval ridge and furrow on Swap Hill (Monument) (MMO2496)
- Post-medieval turf stack on Swap Hill (Monument) (MSO7019)
- Prehistoric flint at Tom's Hill Farm (Find Spot) (MEM22083)
- Prehistoric or post-medieval mound at Elsworthy (Monument) (MSO10922)
- Prehistoric standing stone above Hoscombe (Monument) (MEM9)
- Prehistoric standing stone at Kittuck Meads (Monument) (MEM8)
- Quarries, North of Sheepwash Stream, Beckham (Monument) (MSO10381)
- Quarries, north of Tom's Hill deserted farm, Exmoor (Monument) (MSO10385)
- Quarries, Southwest of Tom's Hill Farm (Monument) (MMO2559)
- Quarry, Beckham, Exmoor (Monument) (MSO10380)
- Quarry, Beckham, Exmoor (Monument) (MSO10387)
- Quarry, East of Tom's Hill Farm, Exmoor (Monument) (MSO10384)
- Quarry, Long Combe (Monument) (MSO10356)
- Quarry, Long Combe (Monument) (MSO10382)
- Quarry, on the South Side of Long Combe (Monument) (MSO10383)
- Quarry, South of Long Combe (Monument) (MSO10377)
- Quarry, South of Long Combe (Monument) (MSO10378)
- Quarry, South of Long Combe Stream (Monument) (MSO10376)
- Quarry, South of Tom's Hill Farm (Monument) (MSO10375)
- Quarry, West of Larkbarrow Cottage (Monument) (MSO10355)
- Second World War Shell Crater on Kittucks Mead (Monument) (MEM24491)
- Second World War Shell Crater on Kittucks Mead (Monument) (MEM24501)
- Second World War Shell Crater on Larkbarrow (Monument) (MEM24490)
- Second World War Shell Craters on Larkbarrow (Monument) (MEM24489)
- Second World War Shell Hole southeast of Tom's Farms (Monument) (MEM24520)
- Sheep dip, Swap Hill, Exmoor (Monument) (MSO11042)
- Simonsbath to Porlock Railway (Monument) (MSO7906)
- Small Quarry, South of Long Combe (Monument) (MMO2514)
- Tom's Hill Farm, Great Tom's Hill (Monument) (MSO7042)
- Two Possible Second World War Shell Craters on Kittucks Mead (Monument) (MEM24503)
- Undated circular feature at Three Combes Foot (Monument) (MSO12213)
- Undated hollow on Kittucks Mead (Monument) (MEM24495)
- Undated hollow on Kittucks Mean (Monument) (MEM24494)
- Undated hollow on Larkbarrow (Monument) (MEM24496)
- Undated mound near Larkbarrow (Monument) (MSO11415)
- Undated mound on Kittuck (Monument) (MSO11132)
- Undated Mound on Kittuck's Hill (Monument) (MEM24519)
- Undated Mound on Kittuck's Mead (Monument) (MEM24507)
- Undated Mound on Kittuck's Mead (Monument) (MEM24509)
- Undated Mound on Kittuck's Mead (Monument) (MEM24510)
- Undated Pit on Kittuck's Hill (Monument) (MEM24517)
- Undated Platform near Tom's Farm (Monument) (MEM24506)
- Undated Possible Shell Crater on Kittucks Mead (Monument) (MEM24500)
- Undated Possible Shell Crater on Larkbarrow (Monument) (MEM24498)
- Undated Possible Shell Crater on Larkbarrow (Monument) (MEM24499)
- Undated surface stone on Kittucks Mead (Non-antiquity) (MEM24493)
- World War Two bomb crater northwest of Three Combes Head (Monument) (MSO10174)
- World War Two firing range impact craters west of Larkbarrow Farm (Monument) (MSO10244)
- World War Two slit trench north of Three Combes Foot (Monument) (MSO10148)
- World War Two slit trench north of Three Combes Foot (Monument) (MSO10149)
- World War Two slit trench south of Larkbarrow (Monument) (MSO10147)
- World War Two slit trench west of Larkbarrow Farm (Monument) (MSO10150)