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Summary

The larger of two enclosures within settlement with walls 1 metre wide by 0.3 metres high along the northern edge with Rattle Brook along the east and south edges and a steep clitter slope on its short wedge. Possibly belongs to a different period to MDV27110.

Location

Protected Status

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

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58SE/15/1
• Old SAM County Ref: 548(PART)
• Old SAM Ref: 22238
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX58SE8
• Pastscape: 400600

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

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

(05/11/1979) 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 (see MDV27110). Other walling in the settlement is fragmentary and only two other huts are visibly linked. Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD. See ground photograph.

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

Probable remains of eastern circuit of enclosure. Evidence of at least two elements, hut circle attached to exterior wall. Two hut circles to immediate north-east.

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

(Visited 1990) The larger of two enclosures within settlement (see also MDV27110). Defined by rubble wall 1m wide, 0.3m high along the northern edge, Rattle Brook along the east and south edges and a steep clitter slope on its short wedge. Possibly belongs to a different period to MDV27110.
Contains 10 free-standing hut circles; another linked to boundary wall, which clearly deviates to include it. Linear distribution of 7 hut circles within the enclosure (forming a ring west of Rattle Brook) suggests they may once have been linked by a palisade or similar. Similar arrangements in stone exists in settlement 100m to north. This timber palisade was probably replaced by stone and earth wall situated to north and west.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 103-104, Map 32, Figure 32.5 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Curving boundary on the west side of the 'Dead Lake Foot' settlement which cuts off the corner of the west bank of the Rattle Brook as it alters its course around a small promontory of higher ground,

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

Fragmentary enclosure remains on the western side of the settlement shown.

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

Visible on aerial photgraph.

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.

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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