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This scheduled monument forms part of the Eylesbarrow watershed reave, a substantial prehistoric field boundary that crosses the high moor. Reaves are linear stone banks that divided and managed the landscape, typically constructed during the Bronze Age when Dartmoor was more extensively farmed and settled than it is today. They represent one of the most substantial engineered landscapes of prehistoric Britain.
Today the reave survives as a low stone wall running across the moorland, visible as a landscape feature but eroded and overgrown in places. Walking here, you are seeing the remains of ancient land division and agricultural practice, evidence of how Bronze Age communities organised their upland terrain. The feature sits within the wider context of Dartmoor's rich archaeological heritage, where such monuments remain largely undisturbed on the open moor.
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