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CRAIG-Y-FINTAN
GRID REFERENCE: SN 709576
AREA IN HECTARES: 182.9
Historic Background
This block of upland is now separated from larger tracts
of unenclosed moorland further east and south by a forestry plantation.
The history of this area is unknown, but it is likely to have been considered
unenclosed Crown land for much of the recent past. It is still essentially
unenclosed, though division into large enclosures has occurred. There
are no settlements.
Description and essential historic landscape
components
This is a rectangular block of moorland rising from
246m on its northern edge to a maximum of 485m. Its northern edge is characterised
by a steep, north-facing craggy valley side, which rises to an undulating
plateau of rough grazing, moor and peaty deposits. This block of moorland
formerly formed part of a wide expanse of unenclosed land, but is now
separated from unenclosed moorland to the east and south by a forestry
plantation, and has consequently lost some of its coherence and integrity.
Today the area still functions as a sheep-walk. There are some dry-stone
walls dividing the area, but these are now mostly derelict and are supplemented
by wire fences. The walls seem originally to have separated the unenclosed
land from the enclosed land to the west, and divided the area into very
large enclosures.
Recorded archaeology consists of a small metal mine,
and a Bronze Age round barrow.
The area is well defined with a valley bottom to the
north, a forestry plantation to the east and south, and enclosed land
to the west.
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Base map reproduced from the OS map with the permission
of Ordnance Survey on behalf of The Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery
Office, © Crown Copyright 2001.
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