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Summary

Enclosure 'C' within Langstone Moor settlement is a small fragmentary oval enclosure surveyed in 2003. There is a hut circle incorporated into the wall on the western side and two further hut circles to the north and north-east. A small section of a doubtful hut circle is also shown to the north-east.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1007554: Enclosures and stone hut circles forming part of a stone hut circle settlement on Langstone Moor
• SHINE: Earthworks and stone walls of a Bronze Age hut circle settlement with in excess of 40 hut circles, some with small enclosures, with another hut circle settlement to the west, on Langstone Moor, near Greena Ball

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NE/17/4
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE (Constructed, Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

National Monument Record, 1979, SF1510, 185 (Aerial Photograph). SDV224088.

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

Enclosure visible on 1979 aerial photograph on the south slope of Langstone Moor, to the south-east of MDV27077. Enclosure is oval in shape, but incomplete on its western side. There are two hut circles incorporated at the terminations of the wall ends.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 68-69, Map 30, Figure 30.2 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Enclosure 'D' at 'Langstone Moor settlement' with three hut circles on the western boundary and another fragmentary one on the north-eastern boundary. A further hut circle is located just to the north-east of this enclosure.

Newman, P., 2003, The Langstone Moor Stone Circle, Peter Tavy, Devon and its Prehistoric Environs, 7-9, figs 2, 9, Appendix IV (Report - Survey). SDV255420.

Small fragmentary oval enclosure (Enclosure 'C' on plan) shown on the English Heritage 1:1000 survey of 2003 with a hut circle on the west side and two further hut circles to the north and north-east. A small section of a doubtful hut circle is also shown to the north-east.
Feature 41 which is depicted on the eastern side of the enclosure, is not thought to be a hut; rather a bulge in the enclosure wall.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Fragments of an enclosure shown on survey.

GetMapping, 2010, GetMapping 2010 aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV351585.

Enclosure is visible on the aerial photography.

Ordnance Survey, 2022, Mastermap 2022 (Cartographic). SDV364674.

Fragments of enclosure shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 1007554 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7275 - Survey of the Langstone Moor stone circle and other prehistoric monuments nearby
• EDV7441 - Condition survey of the archaeological sites of Merrivale Training Area
• EDV7570 - Condition survey of Merrivale Range training area
• EDV8713 - Merrivale Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey

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