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Summary

Two medieval or later fields on the crest of the ridge overlooking the right bank of the Venford Brook south of Bench Tor surrounding four Bronze Age hut circles. 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.

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: SX 67 SE 29
• Pastscape: 442938

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CORN DITCH (Constructed, Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))
• FIELD (Constructed, Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

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., 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. See related records for the huts.
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.

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

Depicted on the modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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