Walkhampton Common reave and Leeden Tor stone row

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1011191) describes two lengths of reave, two stone hut circles, a round cairn and a stone alignment on Walkhampton Common. All are thought to be Bronze Age, but the huts, cairn and stone alignment are older than the reaves. It lies in the parish of Walkhampton, about 1 km west of Hart Tor.

The Walkhampton Common reave divides the Meavy and Walkham valleys, with a remarkably straight central section that peat has overgrown in places. Unlike the other watershed reaves, it is not lined up on a tor or a skyline barrow. It can be followed from SX 5600 7050 in the clitter of Sharpitor to SX 5783 7306 at a terrace of the disused Princetown to Yelverton railway line. A 2,070 metre length is included here, a stony bank 3 metres wide and up to 0.8 metres high, with short gaps where dense peat has buried it.

The second reave is a 302 metre boundary bank running at right angles from the Walkhampton Common reave to the clitter on the south side of Leeden Tor, a prominent rubble and boulder bank 0.6 metres high and 2.8 metres wide on average, with several small cairns about 4 metres across along it. It is a transverse boundary that would originally have joined the Walkhampton Common reave to the Great Western Reave and divided open pasture. Two adjoining huts, lined up north-west to south-east, are joined to it by short stretches of walling. The northern is 6.3 metres across with a wall 2.5 metres wide, the southern 8.4 metres across with an internal partition.

A round cairn on the line of the transverse reave is 9 metres across and up to 1 metre high. It is older than the reave and probably goes with the nearby stone alignment, which points at it though it now stops 28 metres short. The alignment is 132 metres long, a single row of 16 stones 0.2 to 0.7 metres high at regular intervals of about 13 metres, and the Walkhampton Common reave cuts across it, so the reave is the more recent.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1011191, which cites the Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 map SX 57 SE (1982), Gibson, Single Monument Class Description: Stone Hut Circles (1987), the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX57SE17.4, SX57SE17.1 and SX57SE171), the National Archaeological Record (SX57SE91 and SX57SE104) and fieldwork for the Monuments Protection Programme by S. Gerrard.

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1011191)
• Grid reference: SX 5707 7212 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)