Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1011977) describes part of Eylesbarrow Reave, a watershed reave that divides the Plym catchment from the Meavy and runs from the Plym at Cadworthy Wood to the summit of Eylesbarrow, about 6 kilometres. This section runs across a spur on the 320 metre contour and down the north-east slope of Ringmoor Down and Gutter Tor for about 700 metres, a bank of stone and earth up to 0.75 metres high and 3 metres wide. Two cairns lie right on its south side. It lies in the parish of Sheepstor, about 1.3 km north of Legis Tor and 1.4 km south-east of Sheepstor.
Historic England sets the Dartmoor reaves in a large system of land division begun about 1700 BC, simple banks of stone and earth marking out territories, some of them tens of kilometres across.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1011977, which cites Fleming, The Dartmoor Reaves (1988), and the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register SX56NE-278 (1990).
Period: Bronze Age
Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1011977)
Grid reference: SX 5709 6687 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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