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What is the earliest known source for the legend of Old Crockern?
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Main image: Photo: Sandy Gerrard, Wikimedia Commons
Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1019266) describes a tinners' building known as a beehive hut, in the valley bottom of the Lade Hill Brook. The name comes from its igloo shape, made by corbelled drystone walling. It is 2.7 metres by 2 metres inside with a corbelled wall 0.8 metres wide and up to 1.2 metres high, and a doorway 0.6 metres wide facing west-south-west. It is built inside a disused streamwork tye, and was presumably made by tinners, perhaps for storage and shelter. It lies in the parish of Dartmoor Forest, about 1.5 km north of Hartland Tor and 2.6 km north-west of Postbridge.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1019266, which cites the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX68SW28, 1995). Sandy Gerrard has dated his photographs to 27 January 1998 in a comment on the Historic England page; I have not used them.
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1019266)
- Grid reference: SX 6392 8144 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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