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Summary

'D' shaped enclosure with two associated hut circles, attached to the northern side of a reave on Blackslade Common. Two smaller enclosures are attached to the exterior; one contains a hut circle. A second, poorly preserved hut sits just to the south of the reave. Both huts were excavated by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1897.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1003283: Foale's Arrishes, huts and fields, Blackslade Down
• SHINE: Earthworks and walling remains of a Bronze Age coaxial field system around Pil Tor with remains of reaves, enclosures, hut circle settlements including Foales Arrishes, continuing south onto Blackslade Down

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77NW/165
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

National Monuments Record, 1979, NMR SF1459, 66 (Aerial Photograph). SDV291903.

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

Agglomerated enclosure, pendant to a reave, visible on the aerial photograph (1979) with three elements and with three freestanding hut circles inside.

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

Visible on aerial photography.

Newman , P., 2015, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, 16-19, 54, figures 11 (Report - Survey). SDV359145.

'D' shaped enclosure with two associated hut circles, attached to the northern side of a reave, south-west of Foale's Arrishes. Two smaller enclosures are attached to the exterior; one contains a hut circle. A second, poorly preserved hut sits just to the south of the reave. Both huts were excavated by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1897.
Condition is stable.

Various, 2018-2019, PALs Condition Recording forms, RT56 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited 15/08/2019. The banks are visible. There is a covering of gorse, heather and the beginning of bracken but overall the condition is good. Photo taken

Various, 2018-2019, PALs Condition Recording photographs, RT56 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Visited 15/08/2019. Photo taken of one of the banks looking uphill along the line of the bank with Pil tor in the distance. Looking from the south towards the north

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6836 - Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape survey

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