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Summary

Pair of semi-circular enclosures with one discernible hut circle south-west of Green Tor. The highest settlement on Dartmoor; the western sections of the enclosures have been destroyed by later streamworking.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork and walling remains of Rattlebrook Mine, including late 18th century stamping mill, extensive streamworks on the Rattle Brook and prehistoric enclosures

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX58NE41
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1063634
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58NE/52

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Untitled Source, SF1510/257 (Aerial Photograph). SDV249022.

Photograph taken on 26th April 1079.

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

Agglomerated enclosure of two elements visible containing five hut circles, four of them attached (1979 photograph).

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 218, 231, Map 43, Site 5 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Green Tor settlement at SX559863 covering 0.2 hectares with one hut circle. Pair of semi-circular enclosures with one discernible hut circle of circa 4.0 metres diameter south-west of Green Tor. The lower sides of the enclosures are open to the river for about 100 metres but the tinners have cut back the bank reducing the area and perhaps demolishing a riverside wall. The double slabbed perimeter wall is still continuous but the site is very overgrown and there may have been more huts. The highest settlement site on Dartmoor.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1993-1998, Dartmoor Royal Forest Project (Report - Survey). SDV346608.

(02/08/1994) Centred SX56008626. The partial remains of two enclosures and a hut circle above the tinners cliff on the left bank of the Rattle Brook 250 metres south-west of Green Tor. These features lie on the west edge of a small clitter field and the walls are formed from coursed boulders and upright slabs presumably removed from the enclosures during clearance.
The northern enclosure measures 55 metres north-south by 16 metres while that to the south, containing the possible hut is slightly larger at 70 metres north-south by 30 metres. The west margins of both enclosures have been destroyed by the medieval and later streamworks on the Rattlebrook. The hut circle lies at SX56018623 adjacent to the eastern wall of the southern enclosure. It consists of a roughly circular levelled area 4.0 metres in diameter, enclosed by a number of large boulders and slabs. There is no obvious entrance.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7620 - Okehampton Artillary Range
• 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
• EDV8813 - Archaeological and historical investigation of Peat Cutting on North-Western Dartmoor

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