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Summary

Enclosure with two huts within the Dartmeet reave system on Holne Moor; overlaid or attached to a field boundary later reused / altered in the Medieval or later period when two fields with corn ditches were in use.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020091: Prehistoric fields and settlements north east of Venford Reservoir forming part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE29
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442938
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/62
• Old SAM Ref: 22369

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2149, 4415-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDV282746.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1958, SX67SE29 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV139784.

(25/04/1958) Two huts recorded. Aerial photo: extensive and irregular and rectilinear field systems to the north and north east of Venford reservoir. OS cards record hut circle only.

West Air Photography, 1975, BT1711, 10 (Aerial Photograph). SDV289766.

West Air Photography, 1975, BT1712, 1-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169281.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX67SE29 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV140951.

(15/07/1977) The site comprises two enclosures and three huts centred at SX 68997148 on a north-west facing slope at 285.0m OD.
The semi-circular enclosure of 25.0m internal diameter, at SX 68937144, is joined to a reave wall and is probably later than the reave. The walling of small piled stones is 1.3m thick and 0.4m high, lynchet-like on the lower west side, with a levelled interior and a north-eastern entrance between the two huts. Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

National Monument Record, 1977, SX6971, 1/54-63 (Aerial Photograph). SDV139785.

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

Large rectangular enclosure with a reave of the reave system SX67SE/244 crossing the middle. The enclosure is divided into two, the northern element containing hut circle SX67SE/65 and a smaller oval, enclosure SX67SE/421. The southern element contains hut circle SX67SE/64. Hut circles SX67SE/422 and SX67SE/371 lie just outside this enclosure, which is attached to another reave by two banks. Visible on the 1977 aerial photograph.

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 1997, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (Report - Survey). SDV173671.

(18/04/1996) Centred SX 6900 7148. Four hut circles belonging to the Dartmeet parallel reave system (SX 67 SE 95) have been enclosed by two medieval or later fields on the crest of the ridge overlooking the right bank of the Venford Brook south of Bench Tor.
The huts originally lay within the well-structured parallel reave system which was disrupted in this area during medieval or later times by the creation of two irregular corn ditched enclosures which largely ignore the earlier pattern. The larger eastern field covers approximately 1.7 hectares and is sub-divided by a low stoney bank. The steeper western field of 0.7 hectares has traces of cultivation in the form of slight terraces in the west-facing slope. See related records for the huts.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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