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Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016145: A prehistoric settlement with cairns and a historic tin mill, streamwork and buildings lying adjacent to the Langcombe Brook

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NW41
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441679
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NW/210
• Old SAM Ref: 28787

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140542, add 38. Doc. (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Visited on 9th May 1996. Oval enclosure of simple type lying adjacent to the Langcombe Brook of 40 metres by 36 metres with a rubble bank wall 2 metres wide by 0.4 metres high. One linked hut circle.

Robertson, J. G., 1991, The Archaeology of the Upper Plym (Post-Graduate Thesis). SDV166324.

Five structures and traces of a fragmentary enclosure are depicted by Robertson.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 148, Map 50 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Traces of an enclosure wall in the Langcombe valley sited close to Deadmans Bottom with two or three small hut circles. Streamworks have resulted in the loss of the lower part of the site and possibly some buildings, but it could never have been more than a modest homestead.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 102.1174. (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

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

(13/02/2002) Centred SX 60596687. The remains of four hut circles (one previously recorded as SX 66 NW 44), a ruinous rectangular structure and the truncated remains of an associated sub-divided enclosure. These features lie immediately outside the streamworks flanking the right bank of Langcombe Brook and may have formed part of a more extensive settlement since disturbed by industrial activity.
The hut circles are all terraced into the foot of the steep SW facing slope and are generally in poor condition.
SX 60596686. Hut circle 8.2m in diameter, walls 1.1m wide 0.4m high. Possible entrance in SE.
SX 60616686. Hut circle badly disturbed by track. 3.1m in diameter.
SX 60626685. Hut circle badly disturbed by track. 3.4m diameter with walls 0.5m wide and 0.2m high.
SX 60626684. D-shaped hut circle 3.2m by 3.5m in diameter with walls 0.6m wide and 0.2m high. This feature previously recorded as SX 66 NW 44.
Immediately to the N of these features and abutting the hut circle at SX 60596686 are the remains of an enclosure measuring 46m NW to SE by 38m. Partially enclosed by a stony bank up to 1.5m wide and 0.5m high this feature has been truncated by the streamworks immediately to the SW of the site. The interior of the enclosure was formerly sub-divided by a similar stoney bank.
At SX 66616685, amongst the hut circles, are the remains of an open-ended rectangular structure measuring 4.3m N to S by 2.7m internally. The interior is largely rubble filled and the enclosing walls measure 0.7m wide and 0.6m high. The origin of this building would appear to be later than the features around it and is possibly allied to the tinworking activity in the immediate area.

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

Sub-oval enclosure shown on survey.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1016145 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Partly within the scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape

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