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Summary

Enclosure 'A' of 230 metres by 130 metres with walls 1.8 metres wide by 0.5 metres high within settlement on Nattor Down. It is incomplete and surrounds one cairn

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1008711: An enclosed stone hut circle settlement, three round cairns and a length of reave 650m WSW of Ger Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX58SW16
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 440702
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58SW/173
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58SW/34
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58SW/34/8
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58SW/34/9

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX58SW16, SX58SW16 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV215547.

Visited on 18th August 1979. Enclosure 'A' is an incomplete enclosure, which would have exceeded 2 hectares in area, and which only incorporates one much ruined cairn. Firty five metres to the south-east is a 330 metres length of wall which may have been part of another enclosure or possibly the boundary of a droveway.

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

Enclosure recorded.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 130631 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Visited in 1993. Centred at SX 5392 8288 The westernmost of two irregular enclosures. Surrounded by a visible boundary bank on three sides. The western side of the enclosure, survives either as a buried feature, has been extensively robbed or was never completed. The minimum dimensions of the area enclosed by the surrounding 1.8 metres wide and 0.5 metres high rubble wall is 230 metres north-south by 130 metres east-west. Cairn lies in the centre of this enclosure.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 99, Map 32, figure 32.2 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Enclosure 'A' at 'Nattor Down settlement' can be partly traced as a line of slabs set in a low bank to the east of the 'leat' and mostly to the south of the 'field wall' and north-west of a curving 'reave'. It surrounds a damaged cairn.

Probert, S. + Fletcher, M. + Newman, P., 1998, Willsworthy Training Area, Peter Tavy, Devon: An Archaeological survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (Report - Survey). SDV350638.

Visited on 19th August 1998. About 15 hectares of the south-west flank of Ger Tor is occupied by an extensive cluster of hut circles and contemporary field systems.

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

Enclosure boundary visible on aerial photograph.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1008711 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

This monument includes two enclosures, seven stone hut circles, a length of reave and three round cairns situated on the south west facing slope of Nattor Down overlooking the valley of the Willsworthy Brook. The western enclosure is defined by a 1.8 metres wide and 0.5 metres high rubble wall on three sides, whilst its western side survives either as a buried feature or was never completed. The minimum dimensions of the area enclosed are 230 metres north to south by 130 metres east to west. A round cairn lies in the centre of this enclosure.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7368 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area, Peter Tavy (1998)
• EDV6663 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6664 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6665 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV8141 - Condition survey of the Willsworthy Training Area

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