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Summary

Enclosure to the east of Shavercombe Tor of 30 metres by 28 metres with a wall 2 metres wide and 0.4 metres high with a hut circle on the southern boundary

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019082: Multi-period remains at Hentor Warren

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE159
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 438947
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/484
• Old SAM Ref: 24230(P)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX56NE159 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV143554.

(14/03/1979) At SX 59166614 on a slight north slope at 349m. OD is a sub-oval enclosure measuring 32.0m. by 25.0m. Its walling is of tumbled rubble 1.5m. wide and 0.4m. high, now heather covered. There is nothing within, but a prehistoric wall, low and insignificant, extends for 30.0m. to the west from the enclosure and for a similar distance to the east after which it is overlaid by a Medieval or later field bank. The enclosure is probably associated with the nearby unenclosed huts (SX 56 NE 97).
Found during field investigation.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140477, 03/05/1995 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(SX 5916 6614) Enclosure is sub circular, 30m by 28m, and is defined by a 2m wide and 0.4m high rubble bank. It contains one stone hut circle, is butted by an historic boundary bank and partly cut by the Phillips Leat. This enclosure may have been reused in historic times because it was respected by the historic boundary bank whilst the same bank slighted stone hut circle SX56NE/55/3.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 123-4; Map 49, Fig 49.9 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Oval Enclosure 'B' to the west of Shavercombe Tor contains one hut circle of circa 3.2 metres diameter on the south side. The enclosure interrupts the upper border of the parallel fields so presumably was still functional when these were laid out.

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

Enclosure depicted and described by Robertson.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 225/ 102.936. (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

(16/01/2002) Centred SX 59166615. A small sub-circular enclosure containing a possible hut platform lie 300m west of Shavercombe Tor. The enclosure banks measure 1.3m wide and 0.3m high. There is no evidence of stone in their construction. The enclosed area measures 32m north to south by 25m and there are no obvious entrances. The southern corner of the enclosure contains a terraced platform 4.7m in diameter which may represent the robbed remains of a hut circle.

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.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UPHT-37 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(24/03/2020) Condition of feature assessed as good. Descriptions from HER are accurate. Enclosure area is lightly grazed and crossed with animal tracks (see photo 1) no damage evident. Site is stable.

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

Enclosure photographed during March 2020 visit.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

Enclosure shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1019082 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Within scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey: EH Project (Feb 2001 - Dec 2002)

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