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Summary

Enclosure 'D' a sub circular prehistoric enclosure 65 metres in diameter and covering 0.3 hectares has lynchetted, double faced orthostatic walling 1.2 metres wide and with two or three hut circles

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012771: Unenclosed stone hut settlement north-east of Yadsworthy

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 66 SW 21
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/21/4
• Old SAM Ref: 10518
• Pastscape: 442223

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Enclosure shown on 19th century map.

National Monuments Record, 1976, NMR SX6361, 1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV138823.

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

Ovoid enclosure visible containing one hut circle in its perimeter wall visible on the 1976 aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 41-42, Map 54, Figure 54.3 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Enclosure 'C' at 'Stalldown Sout-east 1' is an almost circular pound 64 metres across with three huts on its perimeter opening to the exterior. Hut '5' at 8.1 metres is a large building with an annex '6' of 4.2 metres diameter. Hut'7' to the north has a diameter of 5.1 metres.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Enclosure faintly visible on aerial photograph.

Newman, P., 2018, Erme Valley Survey data (GIS and Excel spreadsheet) (Cartographic). SDV361913.

Enclosure shown on survey.

Newman, P., 2018, The Upper Erme Valley, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: An Archaeological Survey, Appendix 1 (Report - Survey). SDV362921.

A sub-circular enclosure with internal and external hut circles on the lower slopes of Stall Down. It is part of a large concentration of huts and enclosures (MDV4259) spread across this location. The internal area is a clear space of 0.35 hectares. The walls of the enclosure and huts have been robbed of larger stone leaving only smaller stones in situ or displaced within a turf covered spread bank up to 2.6 metres wide or, in places, a circa 0.5 metre high scarp within which fragments of wall face survive. Three narrow breaches exist within the bank though it is uncertain if any served as an entrance. One large hut circle is built into the south-west arc of the enclosure and probably predates it. Surviving stone suggests the hut had an internal diameter of approximately 8.2 metres though the walls are now spread to 3.3 metres wide and turf covered. Attached to the eastern arc of the hut against the interior of the enclosure is a small turf covered circle with an internal diameter of approximatey 3.3 metres. On the eastern exterior adjacent to a kink in the enclosure wall a circle of eleven small stones is all that survives of a third hut circle with an internal diameter of 5.2 metres.

Ordnance Survey, 2020, MasterMap 2020 (Cartographic). SDV363413.

Enclosure shown on modern mapping.

National Monuments Record, 2020, Pastscape, 44223, SX66SW21 (Website). SDV363416.

Enclosure 'D' at SX 63856121 is a sub circular enclosure, 65 metres diameter and covering 0.3 hectares. It has lynchetted, double faced orthostatic walling, 1.2 metres wide and, with two possible, single entrances on the east side. The interior is clear of boulders. Two Type 2 hut circles, have average internal diameters of 7.0 metres and walls about 1.2 metres wide. They predate the enclosure; one, in fair condition, is built on the wall line, the other, fragmentary, is on the outside.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8082 - Survey of the Upper Erme Valley

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