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Summary

Three sides of a small sub-rectangular enclosure situated on a slight south-east falling slope. It measures approximately 28.0m by 22.0m with rubble walling 1.2m wide and 0.5m high. The condition of the enclosure is very poor with the north-east side lost amongst the clitter. An in-turned entrance is visible in the west side. The interior is featureless.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012801: Enclosure west of Ford Brook

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SW79
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442403
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/138
• Old SAM Ref: 10771

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

National Monuments Record, 1976, SX6062, 1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV142425.

Photograph taken on 8th April 1976.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66SW79 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV149876.

(19/08/1977) At SX 60556230 are three sides of a small sub-rectangular enclosure situated on a slight south-east falling slope at 310.0m OD. It measures approximately 28.0m by 22.0m with rubble walling 1.2m wide and 0.5m high. The condition of the enclosure is very poor with the north-east side lost amongst the clitter. An in-turned entrance is visible in the west side. The interior is featureless.
Found during field investigation. Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD.

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

One wall of this enclosure is visible.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 181-2, Map 52, Figure 52.7 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Enclosure 'D' indicated to the south of 'Ford Brook Upper settlement' and presumably contemporary with it consists of a low rubble bank open towards the river without any associated huts.

Environment Agency WMS, 2019, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution), 2019 (Cartographic). SDV362956.

Visible on Lidar data.

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

'Enclosure' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1012801 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

This enclosure lies on a south-east facing slope west of Ford Brook, half way between two groups of enclosures and stone hut circles on the same slope. It measures 20 metres by 30 metres and consists of a bank of earth and stone up to 2 metres in width and 0.5 metres in height, with a wide opening to the north-east and traces of internal banks of stone and earth within it.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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