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Summary

Simple enclosure at surviving as a 12.5 metre diameter area surrounded by 2.4 metre wide and 0.2 metre high rubble and orthostat wall. A boundary wall leading south-west from the enclosure is probably of historic date.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020323: Prehistoric and historic archaeological landscape at Trowlesworthy Warren

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 SE 19
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/482
• Old SAM Ref: 24232
• Pastscape: 439160

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE (Early Bronze Age to Late Bronze Age - 2000 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Haynes, R. G., Map of Trowlesworthy Warren (Cartographic). SDV165949.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX56SE19 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV147005.

(22/06/1977) SX 571 645: A group of three enclosed settlements on a south-west slope at 265m O.D., together 6.0 hectares in area. All are in poor condition.
A: SX 5704 6450. A roughly oval enclosure measuring 18.0m by 26.0m internally with crude walling 2.0m to 3.0m thick, 0.7mhigh externally and 1.0m high on the inside where the interior is dished and contains a single type 1 hut.
This is of 3.5m internal diameter with a levelled floor and walls of small rubble 1.5m thick and 0.5m high. There is an entrance in the south-east.
At SX 570 645, on the slope immediately to the north are a number of cultivation plots covering 1.0 hectares. Each is about 26.0m by 8.0m, demarcated by rows of single stones and boulders up to 0.7m high.
B: SX 5706 6451. The remains of an enclosure forming a semi-circle 14.5m in diameter with walling 1.0m thick and 0.5m high.
C: SX 5707 6454. An enclosure, 25.0m by 12.0m with a levelled interior and walling similar to that of B. There is no discernible entrance but it incorporates a possible type 2 hut circle of 11.5m internal diameter and with walling 1.5m thick and 0.6m high.
D: SX 5709 6457: A type 2 hut circle with no visible entrance. A modern stone boundary wall adjoins the east side of the hut.
E: SX 5715 6455. A sub-circular yard of 13.0m internal diameter has walls 1.5m thick and 0.7m high with a type 1 hut on its south-west side. Its internal diameter is 4.0m the walling being 1.5m thick and 0.7m high with a possible entrance in the south.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on P.F.D.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140644 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Site visited on 9th April 1995.Simple enclosure at SX 5724 6449 survives as a 12.5 metre diameter area surrounded by 2.4 metre wide and 0.2 metre high rubble and orthostat wall. A boundary wall leading south-west from the enclosure is probably of historic date.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 158, Map 51, Figure 51.1 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Prehistoric Enclosure (N) is a simple enclosure of 11.5 metres diameter on the western edge of a patch of surface stone.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 33, 102 093 (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

Sub-circular enclosure composed in north, west and south sectors of turf-covered boulders and smaller stones. The eastern sector consists of massive stones built against clitter boulders. Interior has been cleared. No discernible entrance. Internal dimensions 12.5 metres by 12.5 metres with a wall 2.4 metres wide by 0.2 metres high.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey, 558 (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

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

Feature shown on survey.

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

Circular feature visible on aerial photograph.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7369 - Survey of Granite Loading Bays at Trowlesworthy, Devon
• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey

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