Historic Environment Record for Exmoor

Summary of sources

The Exmoor HER is a comprehensive index of archaeological sites within the National Park which includes parts of Devon and Somerset. The register includes all types of landscape intervention, regardless of period and the extractive industries are well represented. These includes quarries, gravel pits, mines and infrastructure. A high number of extractive industry entries are originally derived from aerial photo transcription, as the National Park has benefited from two episodes of the National Mapping Programme, the most recent in 2007-9, resulting in many new entries. Other secondary resources for mines and quarries include the historic OS maps. Data have also been derived from the RCHME Exmoor Survey of 1993 - 6, where many mine sites and some quarries were investigated, surveyed and analysed (Riley & Wilson-North 2001). Exmoor has also benefited from an archaeological project directed at the early iron industry. Much published and unpublished material has resulted, although the number of sites discussed in detail is limited. Although many quarries, trial pits and other extractive pits have been located from AP and early OS sources, few attempts at identifying the material extracted from these sites have been made. Bibliographical material relevant to the archaeology of Exmoor Mines is limited to a few titles.

The following list of material derived from the HER is sorted by media type.

MONOGRAPHS & PUBLISHED REPORTS

Atkinson, M 1997 Exmoor's Industrial Archaeology. Tiverton: Exmoor Books Bowman, A. C. 1998. British Quarrying History.

Buchanan, C A & R A 1980 The Batsford guide to the industrial archaeology of central southern England: Avon County, Gloucester. London: Batsford

Dixon, D 1997 'Copper and Gold Mining in the Exmoor Area' in Atkinson, M (ed) 1997. Jones, M 1997 'Iron Mining' in Atkinson, M (ed) 1997.

Riley, H 2000 Colton Pits, Nettlecombe, Somerset: early iron ore extraction pits and 19th/20th century mining. English Heritage Al Report

Riley, H & Wilson-North, R 2001 The Field Archaeology of Exmoor. Swindon: English Heritage

Sellick, R. 1970 The West Somerset Mineral Railway and the Story of the Brendon Hills Iron Mines.Newton Abbot David and Charles ARTICLES

Aiano, A R 1977 'Romano-British ironworking sites, a Gazeeter' Historical Metallurgy 1.2, 80

Anon, 1977 'Newland Quarry' Somerset Industrial Arch Soc J 36-39

Anon 1981 'Kennisham Hill Engine House'. Somerset Industrial Arch Soc J

Bryant, T C 1980 'The Hollow Hills of Brendon' Wessex Caving Club Journal 16,180

Claughton, P F 1974 'Farway: Metalliferous mines of North Devon and Exmoor' Plymouth Mineral and Mining Club Journal 9 Claughton, P F 1992 'The North Molton Copper mine; riches in the west' North Devon Heritage Journal 2-7 Hayman, T 1973 Eisen Hill Mine. Shepton Mallet Caving Club Journal. 13-15 (The adit was explored by Shepton Mallet Caving Club in 1973)

Murless, B 1986 in Dennison, E (ed) 'Somerset Archaeology 1986'. Proc Somerset Archaeol and Natural Hist Soc 130, 160 Osborn, B 1983 'Parish surveys...No 5: Minehead Without' Proc Somerset Archaeol and Natural History Soc 20 Wilson-North, R 1996 'Recording the Iron Mines of Exmoor' Mining History 13.2, 137-42

EXMOOR EARLY IRONWORKING

Bray, L 2002 Roman Lode Excavation, (unpub report)

Bray, L 2005 Roman Lode Stratigraphic Report 2002-2004. (unpub report)

Bray, L S 2005 The Sherracombe Ford Ceramic Assemblage, (unpub report)

Bray, L S 2006 The Archaeology of Iron Production: Romano-British Evidence from the Exmoor Region. Exeter: EUP

Brown, A Bennett, J & Rhodes, E 2009 'Roman Mining on Exmoor: A Geomorphological Approach at Anstey's Combe,

Dulverton' Environmental Archaeology Burton, R A 1993 The Heritage of Exmoor. Barnstaple

Cannell, J 2005 The Archaeology of Woodland Exploitation in the Greater Exmoor Area in the Historic Period. BAR British Series,

Oxford: Archaeopress Carey, C 2005 Geochemical Survey and Metal Working on Archaeological Sites. Exeter: EUP

Carey, J C 2005 Integrating Geoprospection Data from Ironworking Sites: a Case Study from Sherracombe Ford Ironworking Complex in Combining Geochemical and Magnetometer Data Sets, (unpub report)

Dean, R 2003 A Gradiometer Survey at Roman Lode, Burcombe, Exmoor, Somerset, (unpub report) Fletcher, M. 1997. Roman Lode, Burcombe, Simonsbath, Exmoor. Unpublished RCHME report, (unpub report)

Fyffe, R 2003 Sherracombe Ford and North Twitchen Springs, Exmoor: Analysis of Pollen and Microscopic Charcoal from Mires

Associated with Sherracombe Ford, (unpub report) Fyfe, R 2009 Roman Lode, Burcombe, Exmoor, North Devon: Pollen Analysis of Blanket Peat

Deposits, (unpub report) Gale, R 2005 Sherracombe Ford, Exmoor, 2002 and 2003: Charcoal Analysis, (unpub report) Juleff, G 1997 Earlier Iron-Working on Exmoor: Preliminary Survey (unpub report)

Juleff, G, Rippon, S & Wilson-North, R 2001 Exmoor Iron: An Exploration of the Impact of Past Iron Production on the

Environmental and Cultural Landscapes of Greater Exmoor (Project Design) Karloukovski, V & Hounslow, M W 2006 Report on the Archaeomagnetic Dating of an Iron Smelting Furnace, Sherracombe Ford, Exmoor. (unpub report)

Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit. 2004. Exmoor Iron Working Project, Radiocarbon Dating, (report) Richardson, I 2003 Sherracombe Ford and its Landscape, (unpub report)

Starley, D 1999 An Evaluation of the Ironworking Site of Sherracombe, Devon. Ancient Monuments Laboratory Report 16. 99. English heritage

UNPUBLISHED REPORTS

Coate, S (nd) The Brendon Hills Iron Industry.

Dixon D 1983 Mining and the Community in the parishes of North Molton, South Molton, Molland and Twitchen The Hartley Conservation Partnership + David Sekers Consulting Partnership. 2004. West Somerset Mineral Railway Conservation Plan. P.24

Jones M H 1995 Report on Proposed Low-Key Visitor Access to Industrial Sites on the Brendon Hills. Jones, M 1995 Notes on some of the Brendon Hills Iron Mines and the West Somerset Mineral Railway. Jones, M. (nd) The Brendon Hills Iron Mines.

Berry N 2004 Archaeological and Historic Landscape Survey of Kipscombe Farm, Countisbury. National Trust Archaeological

Survey Report. NTSMR 100260 P4. NT SMR No 101006 Preece, A 1992 Archaeological Survey of the Upper Hoaroak Valley/The Chains valley Area, Exmoor.

Contributed by: Tim Roberts