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Summary

Western enclosure of 70 metres by 40 metres with walls 1.8 metres wide by 0.4 metres high at settlement west of Fernworthy Forest boundary with two hut circles

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018709: Prehistoric stone hut circle settlement 630m south of Hemstone Rocks

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1995, 3365 (Aerial Photograph). SDV224714.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX68SW20 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV244146.

(23/06/1950) Enclosure, and hut circles, approximate diameter 5m. These remains are so vague and fragmentary that the walling of both hut circles and enclosure has no height at all and can only be discerned by a few small stones and a lighter colouring in the grass.

Ordnance Survey, 1972, OS/72/066, 021 (Aerial Photograph). SDV346967.

An oval enclosure with two possible hut circles is visible on the air photograph. Approximate siting SX 64648288.

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

Not visible on 1947 aerial photographs.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit, M. J. Fletcher (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

Visited on 2nd July 1990. Centred at SX64688288 (?). The remains of an ovoid-shaped enclosure of 27 metres by 16 metres with walls 1.5 metres wide by 0.4 metres high. Hut circles at SX64678288 (?) and SX64688386 (?).

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 144216-20 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(10/09/1997) SX 6465 8287. Enclosures forming part of a prehistoric settlement 810 metres east-south-east of the Grey Wethers. One complete and two partial enclosures survive. Rubble bank wall 1 metre wide, 0.3 metres high. Three linked huts, one internal hut. Enclosures may have once been linked to each other. Deep peat deposits in this area have obscured the detail. Grey Wethers is visible on the skyline from this settlement. The vegetation is grass, tufty grass and a few small gorse bushes. This settlement is on a relatively steep slope.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 158, Map 35, Figure 35.2 (Monograph). SDV219155.

'White Ridge North settlement' with two separate enclosures 'A' and 'B' with banks no more than 0.2 metres high and two hut circles associated with each enclosure. On the southern edge of the settlement are the two channels of the Birch Tor and Vitifer Mine leats

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

Hut circles and some boundaries shown on survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.

'Enclosure & Hut Circles' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1018709 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

The monument includes an enclosed stone hut circle settlement lying on a north facing steep slope within Great Stannon Newtake overlooking the valley of the River South Teign. At least three enclosures survive within the settlement. The western enclosure is sub oval in shape, measures 72 metres long by 44 metres wide and is denoted by a 1 metres wide rubble bank standing up to 0.3 metres high. One stone hut circle lies within the northern part of the enclosure and another is butted by the enclosure wall.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8650 - Great Stannon Newtake, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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