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Summary

Enclosure forms an outlying part of a large partially enclosed hut circle settlement. The enclosure is sub circular, measures 38m by 32m and is defined by a 1.8m wide and 0.5m high orthostatic wall faced by slabs on both sides and infilled with rubble. The enclosure wall links 3 hut circles which appear to pre-date the enclosure.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1014671: An enclosure and three stone hut circles 550m ENE of Merrivale Bridge, forming part of a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57NE26
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 439647
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NE/37
• Old SAM Ref: 24201

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1979, SX57NE26, Enclosure D (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV235322.

(21/08/1950) SX 5554 7520. The enclosure of a group of five hut circles and enclosure. Enclosure D. Wall composed of large boulders height 0.7-0.5m, some of which are turf covered. Hut circles A, B and C are built against the wall. Condition fairly good.
(05/11/1979) Five partly robbed hut circles and the remains of what may have been an enclosure are centred at SX 55557519. Three huts of Type 2 (56 NE 71) have double walling 1.3m. wide and 0.5m. high, with exceptional slabs up to 0.8m. high; internal diameters range from 5.5m. to 8.9m. Two of the huts have entrances, on the south-west and south; in the third entrance is uncertain.
From the largest hut an enclosure wall extends north-west and east for a total of 60.0m., now rubble 0.4m. high linking in situ boulders; stone robbing may have caused the abrupt termination at the eastern end. Here, at SX 55567521, are two probably Type 1 huts (SX 56 SE 19) apparently single walled, with internal diameters of 3.9m. and 4.9m. both linked by a low wall of single stones. The northern of the huts has a southern entrance, the other has no certain entrance gap.
There is no definable field system that can be associated with the settlement.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD and at 1:2500.

National Monuments Record, 1976, SX5575, 1/433, 2/435 (Aerial Photograph). SDV345021.

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

Enclosure on west facing slope of Mis Tor. Incomplete on south-east circuit. Four hut circles attached to enclosure walls 4th hut circle at SX 55577519.

Griffith, F. M., 1986, DAP/HO, 13 (Aerial Photograph). SDV256450.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 133545 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

At SX 5555 7521. Enclosure forms an outlying part of a large partially enclosed hut circle settlement. The enclosure is sub circular, measures 38m by 32m and is defined by a 1.8m wide and 0.5m high orthostatic wall faced by slabs on both sides and infilled with rubble. The enclosure wall links 3 hut circles which appear to pre-date the enclosure.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 73; Map 30.5 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015 onwards, 2015 onward Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV362959.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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