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Summary

Insubstantial D-shaped Enclosure 'C', either robbed or incomplete on the eastern side north-west of the Dry Lake Gulley, Harford Moor.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Group of Bronze Age hut circle settlements west of Quickbeam Hill, adjacent to the River Erme, consisting of three sets of enclosures, two conjoined, with over ten associated hut circles

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SW9
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442187
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/201

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Feature shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1977, SX66SW9 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV165657.

(08/08/1977) Centred SX 63876382. This open settlement consists of 3 hut circles and the insubstantial remains of an enclosure; it lies on a moderate, well drained, clitter free, southwest facing slope at 380m above OD.
The enclosure wall, 0.8m wide, 0.3m high is built of small boulders and forms a continuous arc, open to the east. There is no evidence of cultivation in the vicinity. (Type site : SX 67 SE 56).
1:10 000 Survey revised on MSD.

National Monuments Record, 1976, NMR SX6363, 6 (Aerial Photograph). SDV156571.

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

D-shaped Enclosure 'C' at Dry Lake North either robbed or incomplete on east side with no certain internal features. Covers about 0.2 hectares in area.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 53-55, Map 54, Figure 54.14 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Enclosure consisting of a single line of earthfast slabs; rather less impressive than the two enclosures to the south. This enclosure may have never been completed on the uphill (eastern) side. This enclosure may be associated with hut circle positioned just to the east (PRN 79069). Two other hut circles lie just to the north-east of the enclosure, which may be associated. Other details: Map 54, 13.

Ordnance Survey, 2010, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV344030.

Feature shown on modern mapping.

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

Feature visible on aerial photograph.

Newman, P., 2018, Erme Valley Survey data (GIS and Excel spreadsheet) (Cartographic). SDV361913.

Feature surveyed.

Newman, P., 2018, The Upper Erme Valley, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: An Archaeological Survey, Appendix 1 (Report - Survey). SDV362921.

A small enclosure on Harford Moor, 130 metres east of the River Erme, which is part of a settlement containing other enclosures and nine hut circles (MDV 4291). The turf-covered stony walls are fragmentary and spread to 1.7 metres and mostly less than 0.2 metres high, but it may originally have formed a 40 metre by 30 metre D-shaped enclosure and several slabs and boulders remain in situ. It is uncertain whether the wall ever made contact with either of the nearby hut circles.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UE-27 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(10/02/2019) Recorded by volunteer condition assessor. Condition assessed as very good. The site is on open grass land not crossed by any major paths. The grass is a fine quality attractive to livestock. Some patches of reed/grass have accumulated where water pools in the interior of the houses and in the exterior ‘drip gullies’ and moss is growing over the stones of the walls. It has remained largely unchanged for at least the last ten years.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Photographs taken in February 2019.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8082 - Survey of the Upper Erme Valley

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