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Moor than meets the eye is a landscape partnership scheme which is helping people to explore Dartmoor’s past, conserve its wildlife, improve understanding of this rich landscape and develop and share the skills to look after it for generations to come. Through a broad range of projects we will look at how the landscape of the moor has been shaped by people over 4,000 years. Over the past year we have undertaken bat studies, are helping to conserve haymeadows and uncovering important archaeology revealing more about the Bronze Age and Medieval life on Dartmoor
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Moor than meets the eye
has now been running for
almost 18 months. We were
given permission to start on
August 18th 2014 and almost
all of our 28 projects are now
under way.
We have undertaken bat
studies, are helping to
conserve haymeadows and
uncovering important
archaeology revealing more
about Bronze Age and
Medieval life on Dartmoor with
the help of dedicated
volunteers. This newsletter
gives a taste of what has been
going on. For more information
visit our website
www.moorthanmeetstheeye.org
Discovering the Dartmoor Story
J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 6 Y E A R 1 2 0 1 4 - 2 0 1 5
Scheme
news in
brief:
81 registered
volunteers
1,130 days
volunteered
MTMTE team
in post
Over 1,000
people
attending
events and
activities
Dartmoor
Haymeadow
Seed
Marketing
Group is being
developed
Hameldown
Geophysics
project
completed
Moor boots
project– 39
awards made
www.moorthanmeetstheeye.org
Moor than meets the eye
Newsletter
Uncovering Medieval Dartmoor
The Moor Medieval project got off to a great start and was
launched with a symposium in February last year.
Specialists gave a range of talks about aspects of Medieval
life and the focus was shone on the iconic Dartmoor
longhouse. This has led to the formation of a Moor
Medieval Study Group which meets on a monthly basis to
develop community research.
A community archaeological dig was held in July to try to
find more clues to the precise location of the old North
Hall Manor in Widecombe. The dig uncovered pottery,
window glass and tiles and some walling which could be
part of the old manor house. 25 volunteers took part in the
dig contributing almost 100 volunteer days and over 100
school children visited the site and took part in
archaeological activities such as washing the finds. The
dig was finished off with a public open day on the
Saturday as part of the Festival of British Archaeology
Just a few of
our highlights
over the year
Lichen Lovers–
volunteer group
in action
Heavy horse
extracting
timber from
Hisley Wood
History Hunters
–volunteer
group
Traditional
Charcoal
Making
Discover the
Dartmoor Story
– Interpretation
board
Wildlife
Discovery Day
Whitehorse Hill
Community
Play
Path
improvements
Fernworthy
Reservoir
Repairs to the
Lustleigh Tithe
Map
Discovery of a
new stone
circle near
Sittaford Tor
Pupils
conserving
historic walling
Improvements
to Brimpts Tin
Mining Trail
For information about all our projects go to www.moorthanmeetstheeye.org
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New hut circle
illustrations
Geophysics
survey at
Hameldown
Heritage Trails
web map
Woodland
lantern walk
Monitoring
invasive
species-skunk
cabbage
Works to
Higher
Uppacott
including
rethatching
Bridge works
to Wray Valley
cycle way
New boundary
stone between
North Bovey
and Lustleigh
Carving the
new boundary
stone at North
Bovey
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10
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Developing the skills to look after
Dartmoor into the future
www.moorthanmeetstheeye.org
Contact
Details
Moor than meets
the eye Landscape
Partnership
The Old Duchy
Hotel, Tavistock
Road, Princetown,
PL20 6QF
Community Officer
Andy Bailey
01822 890903
andy@moorthanm
eetstheye.org
Restoring ancient boundaries and pounds
We have set up a
programme to help
people develop their
practical skills to
manage wildlife. We
took on 4 placements
last year and one of
them has already
managed to get a job.
Whilst based at Yarner
Wood they have also
been involved in
projects across the
scheme using their new
skills. The next four
placements are due to
start in April.
We are also working with lots of community volunteers and are
helping to develop new skills. Last summer we ran an introduction
to LIDAR mapping for volunteers to learn more about this
technology and test it out in the field. We also ran an introduction
to the Devon Heritage Archives. We plan to develop this
programme supporting volunteers across all our projects this year.
Our Partners:
The first year of this project is now drawing to a close with
4 out of the 5 walling agreements completed and
inspected. These included :
- 120 metres from Hemsworthy Gate towards New House
which is an old newtake wall dating from around 1700 and
running alongside a busy road.
- 90 metres and gateways at Babeny, one of the moors
ancient tenements and adjoining the site of an old mill and
on a well used footpath.
- 100 metre repair over a 500 metre stretch at Postbridge
being part of an ancient driftway and alongside a busy
footpath
- 75 metre repair over 150 metre stretch and the
reinstatement of 2 stone gateways at Postbridge alongside
the ancient driftway
Parishscapes Parishscapes is helping local communities to come together to
explore their parish landscape and discover the heritage within it.
We are currently working with 10 of the 14 parishes to develop
projects that celebrate, care for and increase understanding of
and improve the heritage of the parish-landscape.
•Lustleigh tithe map conserved, Pethybridge Woods Management
Plan written
•North Bovey Taster Day, Dickford Bridge boundary stone
installed
•Medieval Ashburton research: River, roads buildings and
watercourses, wide range of school and community groups
engaged in a diverse range of projects
•Moretonhampstead: Life in the Manor of Doccombe-in
development
•Buckland: Ten Commandment Stones Project