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Summary

Hut Circle '3' within enclosure 'A' at 'Owley Gate enclosures' (Butler) of 10 metres diameter with walls 1.5 metres wide by 0.9 metres high and an entrance to the south

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Group of two large Bronze Age enclosures containing five hut circles each and a single hut circle with small enclosure at Owley Corner

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX65NE55
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX65NE/295
• Pastscape: 441229
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs, CPE/UK 1890/1215-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Photograph taken on 10th December 1946.

Plymouth Museum Archaeology Group, 1961, Settlements at the Scad Brook (Plan - measured). SDV176909.

Enclosure centred at sx66955990 containing five hut circles.

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

This oval enclosure does not show up clearly on the 1946 aerial photographs. Two possible hut circles internally and groups of trial pits. Just over 2hectares in size.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 82-83, Map 56, Figure 56.1 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Hut Circle '3' in Enclosure 'A' at 'Owley Gate Enclosures' with an entrance to the east is one of five hut circles of between 4.7 metres and 5.8 metres diameter.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Hut circle visible on aerial photograph.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UGB13 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited 08/04/2019. The main threat to the integrity of this site is a path which runs along rather than beside the perimeter enclosure bank for about 10 meters in oder to avoid the heavy gorse. The site is invisible in the summer due to bracken inundation. Photos taken

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, UGB13 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Visited 08/04/2019. Photos X 12 taken giving coordinates at each location.
1 2) 3) showing gorse and foot traffic erosion on the enclosure bank on the south west side
4) 5) showing various damage to the enclosure bank to the north west side
6) SX66915 59957 looking north A possible unrecorded hut
7) SX66910 59958 looking south east showing a path cutting through the enclosure bank at the northern end
8) SX66935 59909 looking west north west at hut 2
9) SX66922 58885 looking north at hut 3
10) SX66919 59879 looking west north west at hut 4
11) SX66886 59889 looking north at hut 5
12) SX66988 59833 looking north west Possible location of hut 1

National Monuments Record, 2020, Pastscape, 441229, SX65NE55 (Website). SDV363416.

Roughly oval-shaped enclosure. Crop marks of possible hut-circles within the enclosure.
Enclosure centred at SX 66905990 containing 5 hut circles.

Riley, H., 2021, Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Landscape, Harford and Ugborough, 13, 7.2.2 (Report - Survey). SDV364697.

Hut circle within enclosed settlement.

Riley, H., 2021, UG21 heritage asset database and gazetteer of sites (Report - Survey). SDV364699.

Visited on 22nd April 2021, surveyed and photographed. Hut circle 'W' of 10 metres diameter, tumbled stone walls 1.5 metres wide, 0.9 metres high, entrance to south.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8770 - Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Lanscape, Harford and Ugborough

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