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Summary

Structure on the west side of the eastern enclosure at Tory Brookhead north of Cholwichtown Clay Works. A semi-circular pen attached to the western boundary

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1002553: Enclosures and hut circles N of Tory Brook Head

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 SE 34
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/23/10
• Old SAM Ref: 10793(P)
• Pastscape: 439205

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• (Former Type) HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))
• STRUCTURE (Constructed, Early Bronze Age to Late Medieval - 2200 BC to 1539 AD? (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, Devon County Council RAF/CPE/UK/1890 2295-2296 10-DEC-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

Curvilinear banks are visible as earthworks.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 133402, 18/5/1993 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

SX 5860 6336 Hut D. Conjoined plan and rubble bank walling type. Interior measures 4.0 metres in diameter and is defined by a 1.0 metres wide wall standing up to 0.3 metres high. Attached to the inner face of the enclosure boundary wall and the south-west edge of Hut C.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 166-9, Map 51.7, Fig 51.9 (Monograph). SDV337765.

A low-banked oval pen on the western boundary of Enclosure 'B' at 'Tory Brookhead enclosures' adjoining the south side of Hut Circle '4'.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 1999-2017, Pan Government Agreement Aerial Photographs, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery SX5863 01-JUN-2002 (Aerial Photograph). SDV363087.

A curvilinear stony bank is visible as an earthwork.

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

(23/05/2002) The enclosure (MDV2425) is bounded by substantial turf and stone banks a maximum 0.8m high and is subdivided by a series of low stony banks and lynchets. While some of these subdivisions are original features of this monument, others are clearly the result of later reoccupation (see SX 56 SE 104) and subsequent stone clearance. This is one example previously described as a hut.

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

Curving feature shown on survey.

NERC, 2013, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) Tellus: South Devon to Dartmoor, LIDAR SX5863 Tellus DTM 01-JUL-2013 to 31-AUG-2013 (Cartographic). SDV361514.

A curvilinear bank is identifiable as a subtle earthwork.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2019-2020, The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey. Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (AI&M, formerly NMP) (Interpretation). SDV362982.

(SX 5859 6336) A curvilinear bank up to circa 1m wide and 10m long is visible as a stony earthwork on digital images derived from aerial photographs from 2002 and is identifiable as a very subtle earthwork on visualisations derived from lidar data captured in 2013.
The bank defines a small D-shaped enclosure up to roughly 7m across, abutting the interior of the north-west side of the boundary bank of the enclosure MDV2425. It also abuts the south-west edge of an adjacent hut circle recorded as MDV2431.
The visible earthwork is interpreted as the remains of a hut circle of probable Bronze Age. It is one of 8 associated with the larger enclosure MDV2425.
The hut circle has been transcribed as part of enclosure MDV2425.

Richards, A. F., 2020, Cholwich Town settlement MDV2425 records confusion (Personal Comment). SDV150716.

(18/05/2020) Due to confusion over unclean HER records, The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey project (2019-20), has ascribed information onto incorrect records; see notes field. Record locations have been updated and correct source information added but some of the HER records referred to by the project will be inaccurate.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

Irregular shaped feature shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1002553 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8098 - The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping (formerly NMP) Survey, Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (Ref: ACD2040)

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