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Summary

The robbed remains of three hut circles and part of a former enclosure wall lie on the ridge crest 250m north-west of Little Trowlesworthy Tor. This hut survives as a crude semi-circle of boulders marking the west side of a hut circle approximately 7.0m in diameter.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Enclosed Bronze Age hut circle settlement at Trowlesworthy Warren, comprising at least three hut circles and the remains of roughly circular enclosure
• Scheduled Monument 1015748: An enclosed settlement, length of reave, two vermin traps and a pillow mound 770m east of Trowlesworthy Warren House

Other References/Statuses

• National Archaeological Record: SX 56 SE 100SX 56 SE 100
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/234
• Old SAM Ref: 28654
• Pastscape: 439387

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Price, D. G., 1977, Settlement at Trowlesworthy Warren, 44, Figure 1 (Article in Serial). SDV150433.

Enclosure on Trowlesworthy Warren with two hut circles about 5 metres in diameter. Largely clear but some large boulders in the interior. Only part of the enclosure wall is visible, in the form of a low mound.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX56SE100 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV175051.

(02/06/1977) At SX 5749 6475 is a levelled area with a few stones which may represent a third hut.

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

Not recorded on aerial photograph.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140792 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Hut 3 at SX57506476 is 5 metres in diameter surrounded by a ring of orthostats protruding through the turf.

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

Prehistoric Enclosure (O) to the north-west of Little Trowlesworthy Tor shown on the map and indicated to the north-east on Figure 51.1 as three hut circles and the west side of an enclosure.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 90, 102. 376d (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

Dilapidated sub-circular structure 7 metres by 8 metres represented by a vestigial wall suggested by an incomplete arc of inner and outer facing stones in the north, west and south sectors. A few other irregular stones may be traced around the east sector. No bank material survives and no entrance is discernible.

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

(20/05/2002) The robbed remains of three hut circles and part of a former enclosure wall lie on the ridge crest 250m north-west of Little Trowlesworthy Tor.
SX 5749 6477. A crude semi-circle of boulders marks the west side of a hut circle approximately 7.0m in diameter.

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

Three huts and enclosure wall shown on survey information. These lie slightly further to the north-east than can be seen on the aerial photography.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Remains of the enclosure wall and northern huts visible on the aerial photography; this hut much more ephemeral.

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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