Eylesbarrow Reave by Brisworthy Plantation

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1017396) places this stretch in the Dartmoor reaves, a very large system of prehistoric land division introduced around 1700 BC. The Eylesbarrow Reave is a watershed reave separating the Plym from the Meavy, running about 6 kilometres from the Plym at Cadworthy Wood to the summit of Eylesbarrow. It can be traced from end to end, but with gaps that leave it in separate sections. It lies in the parish of Sheepstor, about 1.2 km west of Legis Tor and 1.7 km south of Sheepstor.

This section starts a few metres from the enclosure of Brisworthy Plantation, whose building probably took in stone from the reave, and runs north-east up the west slope of Ringmoor Down for about 300 metres. It stops at a gap where a cairn stands on the south-east side. The bank is of small stones and earth, up to 2 metres wide and 0.4 metres high, wider and higher at the south-west end, though that and the ditching along the south-east side and end are probably from later work on the plantation intake. A recent track crosses the south-west end. A stone alignment and cairn lie about 500 metres south-east of the reave.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1017396, 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 1017396)
• Grid reference: SX 5591 6595 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)