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Summary

Forms an outlying part of a large stone hut circle settlement. Enclosure survives as a 55m long and 43m wide oval area defined by a 1.5m wide and 0.5m high double faced rubble wall, which is lynchetted along its southern circuit, where it stands up to 1.2m high. A short length of its eastern side has seen limited damage as a result of the making of Raddick Lane and now survives as a buried feature. The stone hut circles lie within the northern part of the enclosure and are composed of circular stone and earth banks surrounding an internal area. A post-medieval drystone wall measuring 0.7m high and 1m wide cuts across the enclosure.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1009086: An enclosure containing two stone hut circles forming an outlying part of a large stone hut circle settlement in Raddick Plantation

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SE82
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 440260
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/114
• Old SAM Ref: 22385

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• WALL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments (Cartographic). SDV359954.

Plot number 876.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX57SE82 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV251125.

At SX 57567033 in Burrator Forest there are two hut circles, one each side of a field wall (personal comment, J. Turner).
(22/08/1977) On the north west side of Raddick Lane in Burrator Forest are the remains of two hut circles within an enclosure which is cut through by a modern field wall. The enclosure wall is a low earth-covered bank; on the east it has been destroyed by the making of Raddick Lane.
The hut circles are 7.0m and 4.5m internal diameter, the former being recognisable as a Type 2 hut. The smaller is visible only as a very low circular bank. The enclosure measures approximately 55.0m x 43.0m overall.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

Greeves, T. A. P., 1979, South West Water Authority Burrator Survey, No. 13 (Report - non-specific). SDV278356.

Some vegetation is due to be cleared 1979-80.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 130911, 04/05/1993 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(SX 5758 7032) Enclosure containing two stone hut circles forming an outlying part of a large stone hut circle settlement in Raddick Plantation. Enclosure survives as a 55m long and 43m wide oval area defined by a 1.5m wide and 0.5m high double faced rubble wall, which is lynchetted along its southern circuit, where it stands up to 1.2m high. A short length of its eastern side has seen limited damage as a result of the making of Raddick Lane and now survives as a buried feature. The stone hut circles lie within the northern part of the enclosure and are composed of circular stone and earth banks surrounding an internal area. A post-medieval drystone wall measuring 0.7m high and 1m wide cuts across the enclosure.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, Map 46 (Monograph). SDV137656.

At SX 57567033 in Burrator Forest there are two hut
circles, one each side of a field wall.

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.

(09/08/2007) The sub-divided enclosure contains two hut circles. Raddick Lane, a sunken track to the moor, isolates this enclosure from the remainder of the extensive settlement. It lies under tree brashings and there are a number of large tree stumps disturbing the features - these stumps are the remains of a cleared c.1920s conifer plantation.
Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, WLK-125 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited 18/01/2020. Overall condition moderate. Photo x3 taken.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, WLK-125 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Photo 1: View looking 310° showing conifers growing on N part of enclosure wall. Photo 2: View looking 100° showing grass/moss and reeds on SW corner of enclosure wall and conifers within the enclosure. Photo 3: View looking 070° showing grass/moss and gorse on E part of enclosure wall.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8351 - Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project

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