Abstract

Linear banks on Crownhill Down, Darttnoor David Gilbertson and john Collis Crownhill Down forms the south-western tip of part of the moor is associated with a field system Dartmoor (Fig. 1), sloping to the north and west into and may be clearance cairns. the valley of the Tory Brook, a tributary of the Plym. It 2. Middle Bronze Age (Fig. 2). Banks with no has been the subject of a number of recent surveys visible ditches are usually datable to the due to the threat of dumping of waste from an open­ prehistoric period, and present radio-carbon cast tungsten mine at Hemerdon. The public inquiry dates concentrate in the period around 1300- in 1983 found against the proposals of the mining 1200 b.c. on Dartmoor, though there is a company AMAX (UK) Exploration Inc, but at the time possibility of use continuing into the Iron Age of writing proposals are under discussion for a modified plan which would obliterate the (Smith eta!. 1981). In many areas of Dartmoor archaeology of the moor up to about the 205-metre these field and boundary systems show (672-ft) contour, including the stone banks which systematic layout on a large scale, the so-called are