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Summary

Enclosures within the settlement on the west bank of Rattle Brook to the north of Deadlake Foot of 48 metres by 37 metres with walls 1 metre wide by 0.4 metres high. Five hut circles are linked to the enclosure wall

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011233: Enclosed stone hut circle settlement 260m north of Deadlake Foot

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX58SE8
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58SE/15/2
• Old SAM County Ref: 548
• Old SAM Ref: 22238
• Pastscape: 440660

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE (Constructed, Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2149, 4282 (Aerial Photograph). SDV282746.

Ancient Monuments, 1964, Schedule notes (Schedule Document). SDV232685.

(12/08/1964) Settlement east of Hare Tor and Dead Lake: enclosures and hut circles.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX58SE8 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV232686.

(05/11/1979) Centred SX 5619 8429 Enclosure and hut circles. On the west slope above the Rattle Brook at 432.0m OD is a partly enclosed settlement with seventeen Type 1 (SX 56 SE 19) hut circles, mostly in poor condition.
The only complete enclosure is sub-oval, measuring 37m by 48m with double-faced walling 1.0m wide and 0.4m high; there is no obvious entrance. Four huts are incorporated in the walling.

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

Oval enclosure visible on the aerial photography. Two hut circles attached to its north-east interior. One hut circle attached to the north-east exterior, one hut circle attached to south-west exterior of enclosure, one hut circle to immediate north.

Ancient Monuments, 1990, Schedule notes (Schedule Document). SDV278922.

The smaller of two enclosures within settlement. Measures 48m by 37m. Double faced wall, 1m wide, 0.4m high. Five hut circles linked to enclosure wall, which post-dates them.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 130598 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 103, Map 32, Figure 32.5 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Five or six huts are on the margin of a roughly circular enclosure 34 metres across on the west side of the Rattle Brook at 'Dead Lake Foot'.

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

Enclosure shown on survey.

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

Enclosure visible on aerial photograph.

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

(27/05/2004, Fletcher M. J., English Heritage Field Investigation) Sixteen hut circles set on a fairly steep east-south-east facing moorland hillslope above a wide sheltered river valley within a fragmentary enclosure.

Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.

Enclosure shown at 'Settlement' on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8679 - Okehampton Range: Management Survey
• EDV8291 - Okehampton Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
• EDV8695 - Survey of Okehampton North Dartmoor Military Range

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