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Summary

Field-plots on a steep slope overlooking the valley of the River Tavy. Boundary banks composed of rubble walling 1.5m wide (up to 0.4m high). These walls form a field system, including four small field-plots associated with a stone hut circle. Further traces of field boundaries survive to the east, but these are extremely fragmentary and are separated from the main part of the field system by a large area of clitter.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011240: Stone hut circle and field-plots 100m east of Ger Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX58SW63
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58SW/97/7
• Old SAM Ref: 22246(P)
• Pastscape: 966529

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD SYSTEM (Late Neolithic to Late Iron Age - 3000 BC to 42 AD (Between))

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 128983 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(03/11/1992) At SX 5480 8310. Field-plots 100m east of Ger Tor.
These field-plots are situated on a steep south-east facing slope overlooking the valley of the River Tavy. The boundary banks are composed of rubble walling measuring 1.5m wide and standing up to 0.4m high. These walls form a field system, including four small field-plots associated with a stone hut circle. Further traces of field boundaries survive to the east, but these are not included within this scheduling proposal because they are extremely fragmentary and are separated from the main part of the field system by a large area of clitter in which no archaeological features have been identified.
This field system is not itself of national importance because it is small and fragmentary. It is however, the only surviving field system within a large enclosure containing several monuments of national importance including the stone hut circle associated with these fields. Important information concerning the economy and character of the inhabitants living within the enclosure east of Ger Tor survives within this archaeological item.

Probert, S., 2001, Willsworthy Training Area, Peter Tavy, Devon. Integrated Land Management Plan Implementation: Archaeological Condition Baseline Survey Appendices 2-5 (Report - Survey). SDV357727.

Probert, S., 2007, A Condition Survey of the Archaeological Sites of the Willsworthy Freehold, Dartmoor Training Area (Report - Survey). SDV357728.

Probert, S., 2013, A Condition Survey of the Archaeological Sites of the Willsworthy Freehold, Dartmoor Training Area (Report - Survey). SDV357729.

Newman,, 2019, A Condition Survey of the Archaeological Sites of the Willsworthy Freehold, Dartmoor Training Area (Report - Survey). SDV363156.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8141 - Condition survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6663 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6664 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6665 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area

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