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Summary

Three adjoining D-shaped Enclosures 'F' (Butler) and two hut circles lie adjacent to the tinner's cliff on the right bank of the west arm of the Venford Brook.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020095: Enclosed prehistoric settlement and round cairn 880m south west of Venford Reservoir dam

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE100
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443149
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/141
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/337
• Old SAM Ref: 22373.02

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX67SE100 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV153313.

(07/07/1977) D-shaped enclosure measuring 35 metres by 20 metres. Upper (west) wall cut back into hillslope. Lower wall forms positive lynchet. East side partly destroyed by Holne Moor Leat. A hut circle, also partly destroyed by the leat, is built onto the outside of the enclosure. Internal diameter 5 metres, wall 1.2 metres wide. No evidence of cultivation in the area.

National Monuments Record, 1979, NMR SF1457, 476-480 (Aerial Photograph). SDV172921.

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

Possible enclosure cut by streamwork in the north and the Holne Moor Leat in the south. Visible on 1979 aerial photograph, but hut circle is not visible.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 187-9, Map 60, Figure 60.9 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Enclosure 'F' at 'Venford Valley South farmsteads' consists of three contiguous U-shaped enclosures are affected by tin streaming, which cuts through all three and bisects one of the two huts identified.

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 1997, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (Report - Survey). SDV173671.

(18/04/1996) Two adjoining D-shaped enclosures and a hut circle lie adjacent to the tinner's cliff on the right bank of the west arm of the Venford Brook. The enclosures are equal in size and both cover around 0.5 hectares. They are bounded by turf-covered stoney banks 1.4 metres wide and 0.6 metres high. The enclosures have been truncated by the tinning activity on the Venford Brook and suffered later disturbance from the Holne Moor Leat which bisects the site. The hut circle at SX 6809 7062 has also been damaged by the leat and exists as a semi-circular platform 4 metres in diameter with a low stoney rim indicating the position of the former walls.

Ancient Monuments, 2000-2001, Enclosed prehistoric settlement and round cairn 880m south-west of Venford Reservoir Dam (Schedule Document). SDV153094.

Settlement includes at least four enclosures, of which this is the northern. Agglomerated. Includes at least three elements. Defined by orthostatic walling except on western edge where it survives as a 1.2m high lynchet. The northern side has been removed by later streamworking and the Holne Moor Leat cuts the walling in several places. Two internal huts survive as orthostatic walls defining areas 3.5m and 5m diameter, up to 1.2m high. One hut has a visible doorway.
(SX 6808 7063: Part of an enclosed prehistoric settlement south west of Venford Reservoir dam).

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

Fragments of the enclosures shown on survey.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

Western of the three enclosure shown on modern mapping with one hut circle.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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