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Summary

D-shaped enclosure. Interior measures 41m north-south by 28m east-west and is defined by a rubble wall, up to 3.5m wide and 0.4m high. The southern length of the boundary bank is no longer visible as an earthwork, though it may survive as a buried feature. Two stone hut circles survive within the enclosure. Under dense bracken when surveyed in December 2007.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011170: Stone hut circle settlement, irregular aggregate field system, two long houses and a medieval and post-medieval field system 700m SSW of Black Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SE76
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 440246
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/101
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/101/3
• Old SAM Ref: 22288

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

National Monument Record, 1976, NMR SX5771, 1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV277283.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX57SE76 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV277282.

(20/06/1977) At SX 5704 7128 on a south facing slope above the River Meavy, about 50m from the south-west end of the stone row (SX57SE35) is a ruined hut circle with a diameter of 6.0m within a D-shaped enclosure of double-walled construction 1.5m in thickness, the south part of which is destroyed. Discovered during field investigation. Surveyed at 1:10000 on PFD.

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

Enclosure containing one hut circle visible on Royal Air Force / National Monuments Record aerial photographs.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 130789, 09/12/1992, compass survey (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

D-shaped enclosure. Interior measures 41m north-south by 28m east-west and is defined by a rubble wall, up to 3.5m wide and 0.4m high. The southern length of the boundary bank is no longer visible as an earthwork, though it may survive as a buried feature. Two stone hut circles survive within the enclosure.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, Map 45 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Depicted by Butler.

Gerrard, S., 1997, Stanlake Prehistoric Settlement (Article in Serial). SDV345536.

Environment Agency WMS, 1998-2016, LiDAR DTM data JPEG image (1m resolution) (Cartographic). SDV360208.

Visible on the lidar data.

Fletcher, M. J., 2007-2008, Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project (Report - Survey). SDV359195.

(13/12/2007) A well defined Bronze Age hut circle levelled into the slope, internally 5.5m in diameter with a robbed double-faced wall of slabs and boulders up to 0.4m high. It lies within a large enclosure with in places thick double -faced walling up to 0.8m high. The second hut is less well defined and now lies under dense bracken vegetation. Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, WLK-92 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited 23/11/2019. Overall condition moderate. Photo taken.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, WLK-92 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Photo looking 330° showing bracken cover with gorse outcrops on enclosure wall.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7518 - Survey of the Stanlake Prehistoric Settlement
• EDV8195 - Field Investigation Survey of the Stanlake settlement
• EDV8351 - Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project

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