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Summary

Possible enclosure with hut circles identified from aerial photographs but not found during field survey. Possible that the visible marks, or some of them, represent the boundary of an old turf tye which has since become silted and peated.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57NE47
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 439706
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NE/53

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE? (Bronze Age - 2200 BC? to 701 BC? (Between))

Full description

National Monuments Record, 1979, NMR SF1509, 427-8, 363-4, (Aerial Photograph). SDV262885.

An enclosure is visible at SX 593773 on the air photographs.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX57NE47 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV216863.

(22/10/1979) The air photographs appears to show the cropmark of a rectilinear enclosure of about 80 metres by 60 metres at SX 5930 7732. It is situated on a steep slope (1 in 3) of the west side of the valley above the Cowsic River.
No enclosure is detectable on the ground, which shows evidence of hillwash and is covered with long grass. It is possible that the marks, or some of them, represent the boundary of an old turf tye which has since become silted and peated. Not surveyed at 1:10 000.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Enclosure on east slope of Black Dunghill identified from National Monuments Record 1979 aerial photographs. Three hut circles attached to interior wall. Three hut circles freestanding within enclosure.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1993-1998, Dartmoor Royal Forest Project (Report - Survey). SDV346608.

(11/07/1994) There is no ground evidence to suggest the presence of the feature identified from aerial photographs in 1985 (citing Probert, S. A. J., 11/07/1994 Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments in England Field Investigation).

Gerrard, S., 1993-2010, Monument Protection Programme Alternative Action Report, 1995 (Report - non-specific). SDV145710.

Could not be found during field visit. Not recommended for scheduling.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Cropmark of this possible enclosure site visible on the aerial photography.

Newman, P., 2018, Archaeological Sites within Merrivale Training Area, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: A condition survey on behalf of Defence Infrastructure Organisation, 8, Table 3 (Report - Survey). SDV361635.

439706: A cropmark enclosure visible on aerial photographs. Not found on the ground (included in list of sites previously recorded but not recorded in this survey either because not located, natural features, non-antiquities or duplicates).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7441 - Condition survey of the archaeological sites of Merrivale Training Area
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8713 - Merrivale Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey

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