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- Period: Medieval or post-medieval (the warren is recorded by 1651)
- Status: Two scheduled monuments (Historic England entries listed below)
- Mounds: Three in these two entries
Historic England measures these mounds from Blackaton Cross. They are part of Trowlesworthy Warren, on the lower slope of Great Trowlesworthy Tor and in the valley bottom of Blacka Brook, where two of the mounds were built among older tin streamworking earthworks. The warren as a whole has about 64 pillow mounds and 40 vermin traps, and is generally accepted as the oldest surviving on Dartmoor.
The two scheduled monuments
| Historic England entry | Grid reference | What survives |
|---|---|---|
| 1014662 | SX 57183 63875 | One mound, 20.4 m by 7 m and 0.5 m high, with a ditch along its south side and a narrow gully along the north. |
| 1014663 | SX 56995 63863 | Two mounds among earlier tin streamworking earthworks in the valley bottom, with a small area of the streamworks included in the scheduling. |
Grid references are from the Historic England entries. Historic England's own titles give a distance from the tor which does not always match its grid reference (one pillow mound is titled 210 m east of the tor but its grid reference puts it about 130 m west), so use the grid reference.
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