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Main image: Tin workings near Eylesbarrow - 35 metres from location - image by Derek Harper (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1010658) describes part of the Eylesbarrow watershed reave. The reave can be traced from Cadworthy Wood to Eylesbarrow, about 7.5 kilometres, and divides the watershed of the River Plym from that of the River Meavy. This length runs up the slope of Eylesbarrow for about 300 metres from a gap in its course to the summit, where it ends. It is a bank of grass-covered stones 3 to 5 metres wide and up to 0.75 metres high, with some large stones showing. It lies across the parishes of Sheepstor and Walkhampton, about 1.1 km east of Combeshead Tor.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1010658, which cites Fleming, The Dartmoor Reaves (1988), and the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register SX56NE-278 (1990).
- Period: Prehistoric
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1010658)
- Grid reference: SX 5978 6857 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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