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Summary

Two truncated prehistoric enclosures to the east of the track in the Erme Valley below Stalldown. To the east of the track two attached D-shaped enclosures have been truncated by the track and an underground pipeline. The smaller enclosure of 0.013 hectares preceded the construction of the larger enclosure of 0.15 hectares which is attached to it at one end. The walls comprise spread turf-covered banks of up to 3 metres widewhich include some large stones still visible. A large hut circle is built against the northern end of the larger enclosure.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012740: Agglomerated enclosure on the west side of the Erme Valley below Stalldown

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/89
• Old SAM County Ref: 817
• Old SAM Ref: 10515

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE (Constructed, Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Oval feature representing the southern enclosure shown on 19th century map.

Brooking-Rowe, J., 1894, 6th Report of the Committee on Devonshire Records, 86 (Article in Serial). SDV157021.

Baring Gould, S., 1900, A Book of Dartmoor, 48 (Monograph). SDV277387.

Royal Air Force, 1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2494, 3049-51 (Aerial Photograph). SDV147533.

National Monuments Record, 1976, NMR SX6361, 2-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDV138823.

Photograph taken on 22nd April 1976.

National Monument Record, 1976, SX6461, 1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV147975.

Photograph taken on 22nd April 1976.

Robinson, R., 1984, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1984 (Un-published). SDV343082.

Site visited on 30th June 1984.

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

Agglomerated enclosure visible, badly damaged by a modern track or road, with five elements containing four hut circles.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 42-43, Map 54, Figure 54.4 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Western part of multiple Enclosure 'B' shown to the west of the track as parts of two enclosures with a hut circle on the northern boundary and another to the south of the enclosures (not shown on other sources).

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

Feature shown on aerial photograph.

Newman, P., 2018, Erme Valley Survey data (GIS and Excel spreadsheet) (Cartographic). SDV361913.

Enclosures shown on survey.

Newman, P., 2018, The Upper Erme Valley, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: An Archaeological Survey, Appendix 1, MDV 4351 (Report - Survey). SDV362921.

To the east of the track two attached D-shaped enclosures have been truncated by the track and an underground pipeline. The smaller enclosure of 0.013 hectares preceded the construction of the larger enclosure of 0.15 hectares which is attached to it at one end. The walls comprise spread turf-covered banks of up to 3 metres widewhich include some large stones still visible. A large hut circle is built against the northern end of the larger enclosure.

Ordnance Survey, 2020, MasterMap 2020 (Cartographic). SDV363413.

Enclosures shown on modern mapping.

National Monuments Record, 2020, Pastscape, 442327, SX66SW51 (Website). SDV363416.

At SX 6400 6142 is an enclosure, 45 metres by about 40 metres which has been partly destroyed by the modern track. It has lynchetted walls, 1.4 metres wide,
built of large boulders and is in very poor condition. A small
yar 20 metres by 10 metres with an orthostatic wall 1.0 metre wide has been attached
to the west side. A probable Type 2 hut circle is at the north-
east extremity of the enclosure. It has an internal diameter of 7.0m and a wall 1.3m wide, levelled into the hill side. It lies
on the wall line, which it possibly predates. At

SX 639261 an oval enclosure measuring 30 metres by 20 metres with a wall,
metre wide, built of small boulders and in very poor condition.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8082 - Survey of the Upper Erme Valley

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