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Summary

Enclosure, fossilized? Visible on NMR 1978 aerial image at
in north east corner of Ringmoor Down. Area approximatly 0.25 hectares.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Medieval landscape at Gutter Tor and Eastern Tor comprising Ditsworthy Warren with numerous pillow mounds, a field system and deserted settlement site and sub-circular enclosure containing ridge and furrow, Bronze Age hut circle sites and a cairn

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE273
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1313030
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/456

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))
• RIDGE AND FURROW (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV250058.

Aph=nmr sx5767/3/242(31/5/1978).

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

Enclosure, fossilized? in north east corner of Ringmoor Down. Area approximatly 0.25 hectares.

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

(2002) This enclosure is of historical date and no associated prehistoric features were located.

Robertson, J. G., 1994, The Archaeology of the Upper Plym Valley (Post-Graduate Thesis). SDV139549.

Depicted and described by Robertson.

Fletcher, M. + Newman, P. + Probert, S., 1999, Drizzlecombe, Eylesbarrow, Ditsworthy and Hartor areas in the Plym Valley, West Devon (Report - Survey). SDV346268.

(02/08/1999) Centred SX 57896727. A small sub-circular enclosure containing ridge and furrow lies adjacent to the car park at the end of the Sheepstor to Eylesbarrow road. The enclosure is bounded by a cornditch type bank with occasional traces of stone revetting. This bank has been breeched in several places and originally enclosed 0.3ha. The S half of the enclosure contains traces of ridge and furrow around 1.5m wide and 0.3m high.

Probert, S., 2005, Ringmoor Training Area: Monument Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV363484.

(07/02/2005) This feature remains as described in 1999.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Medieval Survey Information (Report - Survey). SDV345602.

A small sub-circular enclosure containing ridge and furrow. It is enclosed by a cornditch type bank with occasional traces of stone revetting. The southern half of the enclosure contains ridge and furrow.

Ordnance Survey, 2012, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV348725.

Enclosure is depicted on the modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7443 - Condition survey of archaeological sites in Ringmoor Training Area
• EDV7569 - Condition survey of Ringmoor Down training area
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey: EH Project (Feb 2001 - Dec 2002)
• EDV8227 - Ringmoor Training Area: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
• EDV4966 - Survey of Drizzlecombe, Eylesbarrow, Ditsworthy and Hartor. The Eylesbarrow archaeological landscape

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