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Summary

Enclosure 'B' of 164 metres by 110 metres with walls 1.8 metres wide by 0.5 metres high within settlement on Nattor Down. It surrounds six hut circles and 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 Record of the Historic Environment: 440702
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX58SW16

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 'B' is 2 hectares in area with three huts in its northern wall and an entrance gap between the two eastern huts. All are of Type 1 with levelled interiors from 4.4 metres to 5.9 metres in diameter and single walling 0.3 metres high. No entrances are discernible.

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

Enclosure and hut circles recorded.

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

Visited in 1993. Centred at SX 5410 8295 The eastern of two irregular enclosures. Lies adjacent to the western and is defined by a wall similar in both character and dimensions. Measures 200 metres east-west by 115 metres north-south and has an entrance through the western wall. Four stone hut circles are attached to the enclosure boundary wall and two further lie within the interior along with a cairn. This enclosure is attached to a reave lying to the south by a substantial lynchet measuring 6 metres wide and 2 metres high. It is however, not clear precisely what the relationship between the enclosures and this reave is. The most likely possibility is that the reave denotes the southern edge of a large enclosure extending as far as the Willsworthy Brook and the two smaller enclosures were inserted into the large enclosure at a later date.

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

Enclosure 'B' at 'Nattor Down settlement' with a boundary of paired slabs and includes three hut circles along the northern border and three others. A hoolowed cairn is also inclded within the circuit.

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.

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

Boundaries shown on survey.

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. This eastern enclosure lies adjacent to the first and is defined by a rubble wall similar in both character and dimensions. This enclosure measures 200 metres east to west by 115 metres north to south and has an entrance through the western wall. Two short lengths of boundary wall leading off from the northern side of the enclosure may represent the much truncated remains of a further enclosure or associated field system. Four stone hut circles are attached to the enclosure boundary wall and two further examples lie within the interior along with a round cairn.

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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