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Summary

Field system and settlement north-east of Lower Cherrybrook Bridge visible on aerial photographs which show distinct and poorly defined crop marks of a field system and two possible huts. The majority of this field system is buried under a thick peat layer and moorland turf. Three sub-oval, contiguous field plots and linear walls lie on a shallow south-west slope and cover an area of about 6 hectares. A short curvilinear length of walling centred at SX 63387493 is traceable on the ground as a line of irregularly spaced boulders up to 0.4 metres high which protrude through the turf; elsewhere only isolated earthfast boulders indicate the line of buried walls. The two hut circles are also almost completely buried in the peat however, the tops of the walls are just traceable.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NW122
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442848
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/188

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

National Monuments Record, 1979, SF1509, 250-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV262885.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX67NW122, plans (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV268347.

(17/12/1979) Air photographs show distinct and poorly defined crop marks of a field system of 6.3ha defined at SX 634750; and two possible huts.
The system cannot be traced on the ground, a SW slope covered with long coarse grass, but one hut is visible at SX 63397509. This is of Type 1 (SX 56 SE 19) in very poor condition. It has an internal diameter of 6.1m, with rubble walling 1.2m thick and 0.3m high. There is no visible entrance.
Hut surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD and at 1:2500 for AO Records.

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

Shown on map overlay but not recorded by RCHM APP 1985.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit, M. J. Fletcher (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(27/08/1989) Centred SX 63427502. The majority of this field system is buried under a thick peat layer and moorland turf. Three sub-oval, contiguous field plots and linear walls, visible on APs (1979) lie on a shallow SW slope and cover an area of about 6 hectares. A short curvilinear length of walling centred at SX 63387493 is traceable on the ground as a line of irregularly spaced boulders up to 0.4m high which protrude through the turf; elsewhere only isolated earthfast boulders indicate the line of buried walls.
The two hut circles are also almost completely buried in the peat however, the tops of the walls are just traceable. They lie at SX 63397510 and SX 63407507 with internal diameters of 5.6m and 6.8m respectively. Their walls, of boulders and stones, are up to 1.8m wide and now 0.3m high; no entrances are visible.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 57, 227, Map 28, Site 11 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Lower Cherybrook Bridge settlement at SX 633751 with one hut circle. The damged hut of circa 6.0 metres diameter by barely 0.3 metres high with about a third if the circumference missing. No traces of fields in the vicinity.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8638 - Dunnabridge Common, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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