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Summary

Rectilinear enclosure in the south-west corner of Roundy Park enclosure of 31 metres by 17 metres with walls 2 metres wide by up to 0.4 metres high

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1021332: Roundy Park prehistoric enclosure and cairn with cist, 560m north east of Archerton

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NW1
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442508
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/109

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

No internal features shown within 'Pound (Site of)' shown on early 20th century map.

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

Discrete enclosure within a field. Appears to have a small partition/element in one corner. Visible on 1951 Royal Air Force aerial photograph.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit, I. S. Sainsbury (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

Visited on 29th September 1989. There are no conventional hut circles in the enclosure but several small sub circular enclosures, formed of crude turf covered rubble walls, about 1.3 metres wide 0.3 metres high, are built against the wall. Inside the south-west corner of the main enclosure is a reed filled sub rectangular enclosure H some 31 metres north-west by south-east by 17 metres, with a rubble wall 2 metres wide and of 0.4 metres maximum height. No entrance is visible.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 41, Map 27, Figure 27.4 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Sub-rectangular enclosure shown cutting off the south-west corner of the Roundy Park enclosure with the possibility of two hut circles in its south-west corner.

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

Circular feature shown on north-west side of enclosure on survey.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 1021332 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

The monument includes a prehistoric enclosure and cairn with cist situated on an east facing slope overlooking the valley of the East Dart River. The enclosure survives as a D-shaped area denoted by a rubble wall measuring between 3.5 metres and 5 metres wide and standing up to 0.6 metres high. The interior of the enclosure measures 114 metres east-west by 102 metres north-south and contains at least seven structures, some of which may represent the remains of stone hut circles. The enclosure wall is surmounted by a post-medieval drystone wall standing up to 1.6 metres high and a post-medieval leat or drain which cuts through the northern part of the enclosure.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV646 - RCHME Field Investigation
• EDV8648 - Middle Merripit Farm, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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