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Summary

Possible house site; platform approximately 12.0m by 5.0m, oriented along the contour and surrounded with orthostatic walling 0.4m high. There is a possible entrance gap in the north corner and some widely spaced boulders join the enclosure to a parallel reave. Its date and purpose are uncertain; it could be a Medieval structure or a prehistoric one adapted in Medieval or later times; poor condition.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020487: Part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system and other archaeological remains on Holne Moor west and north west of Venford Reservoir

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE102
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443155
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/142
• Old SAM Ref: 22368

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE PLATFORM (Constructed, Unknown date)

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX67SE102 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV153426.

(12/07/1977) At SX 67407193, situated on a north east slope at 281m OD is a terraced platform (? house site) approximately 12.0m by 5.0m, oriented along the contour and surrounded with orthostatic walling 0.4m high. There is a possible entrance gap in the north corner and some widely spaced boulders join the enclosure to a parallel reave. Its date and purpose are uncertain; it could be a Medieval structure or a prehistoric one adapted in Medieval or later times; poor condition.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD

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

Not recorded.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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