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Summary

Small oval enclosure of 17 metres by 10 metres with walls 2 metres wide by 0.3 metres high terraced into the hillslope on the lower east-facing slope of Roos Tor, with a hut circle within it. Entrance 2 metres wide in the centre of the eastern wall.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1007549: Enclosure and stone hut circle 450m north of Shillapark Farm

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57NE40
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 439685
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NE/66
• Old SAM Ref: 20379

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SX57NE40, SX57NE40 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV275877.

(17/10/1978) At SX 55087636, on an east-facing slope, 120.0m west of the River Walkhampton is a small enclosure measuring 16.5m x 10.0m, within a very low and fragmentary wall 1.2m wide. Within the enclosure is a circle of stones 3.3m in diameter, which is probably the remains of a hut circle but it is too fragmentary to be certain. Found during field investigation.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

National Monuments Record, 1979, NMR SF1510, 153 (Aerial Photograph). SDV273995.

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

Small oval enclosure containing hut circle visible on the 1979 aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 87, Map 31, Site 8 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Outer bank 3 metres outside the hut circle from which all the sizeable stones have been removed for use elsewhere.

Newman, P., 2004, Merrivale Range Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV346874.

(10/08/2004) As described by the Ordnance Survey in 1979 but hut and enclosure appear to consist only of small stone and was heavily robbed by builders of the nearby newtake wall. What survives is stable.

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

Northern part of enclosure shown on survey.

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

Enclosure visible on aerial photograph.

Newman, P., 2018, Archaeological Sites within Merrivale Training Area, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: A condition survey on behalf of Defence Infrastructure Organisation, 10/01/2018 (Report - Survey). SDV361635.

Enclosure with possible hut circle within, north of Shillapark enclosure. The features have been heavily robbed of stone.

Historic England, 2018, National Heritage List for England, 1007549 (National Heritage List for England). SDV360653.

This monument includes a stone hut circle situated within a small enclosure lying on the lower east-facing slope of Roos Tor. The enclosure is terraced into the hillslope, is oval in plan and measures 17m from north to south by 10m east to west and has 2m wide rubble walls standing up 0.3m high. The entrance is in the centre of the eastern wall and measures 2m wide. The stone hut circle is situated in the centre of the enclosure. The wall is composed of a rubble bank and the interior measures 3.1m in diameter and has a 1m wide wall standing up to 0.2m high. The monument lies in close proximity to a substantial Bronze Age field boundary known as The Great Western Reave and on the periphery of a contemporary fragmentary field system.

Ordnance Survey, 2022, Mastermap 2022 (Cartographic). SDV364674.

Enclosure shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7441 - Condition survey of the archaeological sites of Merrivale Training Area
• EDV7570 - Condition survey of Merrivale Range training area
• EDV8713 - Merrivale Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey

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