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Summary

Enclosures on east side of settlement on Giant's Hill. The enclosures are largely complete and vary in size from 0.04 hectares to 0.2 hectares They are bounded by broad stony banks up to 2.0 metres wide and 0.6 metres high. There are four or five internal hut circles and two more to the west

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019081: Enclosed stone hut circle settlement and three round cairns on Giant's Hill

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 NE 94
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/542
• Old SAM County Ref: 499
• Old SAM Ref Revised: 24190
• Old SAM Ref: 10688
• Pastscape: 438767

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX56NE94 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV159655.

(23/06/1977) An enclosed settlement consisting of 3 separate enclosures and one hut situated on a moderate, well drained, west facing slope at 340 metres above OD.
Enclosure B (SX 5957 6679). This sub circular enclosure, diameter 45 metres and 0.1 hectares, has a wall in poor condition 2 metres wide, built of small boulders. It contains 2 Type 1 huts, average internal diameter 3.5 metres with walls 1 metres thick. One has the remains of a probable annex, the other a south facing entrance. A sub rectangular yard, 4 metres by 2 metres is built into the corner.
Enclosure C (SX 5952 6676). The fragmentary walling of this oval enclosure 40 metres by 30 metres and 0.1hectares is about 1.5 metres wide and constructed of small boulders. A Type 1 hut circle, internal diameter 3 metres, wall 1.5 metres wide and in poor condition.Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140367, 03/06/1995 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Agglomerated enclosure with at least two distinct enclosed areas.
The earliest, 'F', survives as a 43m by 42m sub rectangular area surrounded by a 2m wide and 0.45m high rubble bank with occasional orthostats. Two hut circles are attached to the inner face of this enclosure boundary on its northern side, two others are linked to the boundary by a short length of rubble bank and a fifth lies in the south-west corner.
The second enclosure, 'G', is attached to the south-west corner of the first and survives as an oval area 38m by 29m denoted by a 1.3m wide and 0.5m high rubble bank with occasional orthostats.
A boundary bank leading north-west from enclosure 'F' links this agglomerated enclosure lying 24m to the west (MDV20053) and together these two groups of enclosures together with 16 stone hut circles form the visible archaeological remains of the enclosed stone hut circle settlement on Giant's Hill.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 130; Map 49, Figure 49.14 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Eastern two enclosures at the 'Giant's Hill' settlement with five hut cirlcle in the northern enclosure and two in the space between these and the enclosures to the west.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 278-9/102.996-997 (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

Environment Agency WMS, 1998-2016, LiDAR DSM data JPEG image (1m resolution) (Cartographic). SDV360209.

Clearly visible on the lidar data.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

(19/03/2002) Centred SX 5952 6680. A number of irregular enclosures containing three hut circles, four probable hut circles, three cairns and a possible military structure on the west flank of Giant's Hill above Mill Corner.
The enclosures are largely complete and vary in size from 0.04 hectares to 0.2 hectares. They are bounded by broad stony banks up to 2.0m wide and 0.6m high. There are no identifiable entrances to these features.

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

Enclosures shown on survey.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

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

Enclosures shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1019081 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Within scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey

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