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Summary

Enclosure with two huts to the east of Harrowthorn Plantation of 50 metres by 30 metres with walls 2.1 metres wide

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Damaged oval enclosure with four associated prehistoric hut circles on the south-western edge of Stall Moor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SW80
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442406
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/152

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66SW80 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV173495.

(19/08/1977) Centred SX 62636200. A settlement found during field work consisting of an enclosure and four hut circles (two detached), situated on a well-drained, clitter-strewn south west facing slope at 310m OD.
The enclosure, which is incomplete, is roughly oval on plan measuring 50m north to south by 30m transversely (0.1 hectare.) The walling is of double-faced orthostatic construction, 2.1m in width, but in poor condition. Two circular house platforms, average diameter 5.3m, with fragments of wall foundations, are linked by the enclosure wall.
The two free-standing terraced hut circles, on of Type II, have an average internal diameter of 6.1m, fragmentary walling 1.3m wide.
The interior of the enclosure and several other small areas have been cleared suggesting cultivation (Type 2 huts! SX 56 NE 71).
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD and at 1:2500 for AO Records.

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

Not visible on aerial photographs.

Gerrard, S., 1993-2010, Monument Protection Programme Alternative Action Report (Report - non-specific). SDV145710.

Visited in 2002.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 190, Map 52, Figure 52.12 (Monograph). SDV137656.

'Watercombe Gate' remains of an extensively robbed enclosure. Oval-shaped, interestingly the rubble infill has been robbed from the eastern side, leaving a double row of evenly spaced vertical slabs, up to a metre high. The south-western quadrant of the enclosure is lacking any wall remains. Badly damaged remains of two huts against the uphill side, and two slightly better preserved huts lie to the south-west of the enclosure.

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

Double row of stones visible on the aerial image around the eastern side of the enclosure.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

'Settlement' with an enclosure and two internal hut circles shown on modern mapping. Two other hut circles are shown to the south-west.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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