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Summary

Seven hut circles and two further structures lie within a well-developed area of Shovel Down Parallel Reave System on the moderate slope on the east flank of Langridge

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1017874: The North Teign coaxial field system (western part) and associated later remains at Shovel Down, Stonetor Hill and Long Ridge

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NW20
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NW/34/8
• Old SAM Ref: 28663
• Pastscape: 443726

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• PARALLEL REAVE SYSTEM (Constructed, Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1951, SX68NW20 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV235594.

(13/9/1951) The enclosure walls include some very large slabs of granite and are now in a very dilapidated condition. The western side is particularly poor. The two small sub-rectangular enclosures on west side of site may have been small fields.

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

Not visible on Royal Air Force 1947 aerial photographs.

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

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 188-9, Map 37, Figure 37.4 (Monograph). SDV219155.

'Stonetor Brook West settlement' with eight huts of 4.0 to 5.7 metres diameter and four small fields within the boulder strewn hillside on the steep slope above the junction of the two branches of Stonetor Brook.

Probert, S. A. J., 1991, Shovel Down Survey (Report - Survey). SDV359365.

(14/8/1991)Seven hut circles and two further structures lie within a well-developed area of Shovel Down Parallel Reave System on the moderate slope on the east flank of Langridge.
The two triangular structures (8) and (9) lie adjacent to a field boundary. Their function is unclear. See Royal Commission survey 'Shovel Down' at 1:2500 scale.

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

Shown on survey.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1017874 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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