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Summary

A settlement comprising a single hut circle associated with three fields or enclosures, situated on a moderate east slope, on a bluff above the right bank of the Cherry Brook. The site is on the edge of a steeper rocky fall to the brook.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Bronze Age settlement 400 metres east of Higher White Tor, comprising enclosures with at least one hut circle and associated fields and a cairn

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NW167
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 875354
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/159

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1951, RAF/540/483, 4048 (Aerial Photograph). SDV224087.

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

Enclosure with two elements each containing a hut circle. Visible on RAF 1951 aerial photograph.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit, No date/surveyor recorded. (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

A settlement at SX 62487862, comprising a single hut circle associated with three fields or enclosures, situated on a moderate E slope, on a bluff above the right bank of the Cherry Brook. The site is on the edge of a steaper rocky fall to the brook.
A SX 62507864 Spread walls of wortleberry-covered small and medium size stones define a hut circle with an internal diameter of 4.1m. The walls average 1.7m in width and 0.4m in height, with a possible entrance break in the E side. The level interior is terraced into the slope. The hut may have been attached to a field boundary which now ends 5m to the N.
Three irregular fields form a small agglomeration with common internal boundaries, the whole covering c0.6ha 70m to the W, a slight stoney lynchet 0.7m wide and 0.3m high possibly indicates other fields now robbed out. The surviving field boundaries are on average 1.5m wide and 0.4m high and are composed of medium and large size stones, occasionally linking natural boulders. On the SE and S the boundary defines the field edge from thick clitter.
B SX 62507861 Within a field is a small arrangement of medium size stones, set edge to edge in a circle of 1.3m internal diameter. It may be a campers hearth of recent origin, but no fire traces were visible.
C SX 62437862 An arc of walling attached to the inside of a field boundary indicates possibly the remnant of a hut or other structure.
D SX 62427863 A small spread of cleared stone 3m long and 1.5m wide.
A second hut circle recorded by source 1 in the W of the three fields could not be identified on the ground.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 64, Map 29, Settlement 12 (Monograph). SDV219155.

A single hut circle settlement with triple enclosures occupies a shelf on the hillside above Cherry Brook.

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

Fragmentary boundaries shown on survey.

Cartographic Engineering, 2006, Dartmoor 2006 1:1250 Aerial Photography (digital) (Aerial Photograph). SDV345590.

The enclosure appears from this aerial photography to extend to the north, so this has been included in the area polygonised for this monument. Map object based on this source.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Enclosure visible on the aerial photography, although slightly less clear than on the 2006 version.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8645 - Powder Mills and Gawler Newtake, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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