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Summary

Sub-circular enclosed settlement at Glaze Meet south of 130 metres by 110.0 metres with walls 2 metres wide by 1.3 metres high with several modern gaps of 2.0 metres to 3.0 metres wide with an apparently modern sunken trackway to the south-east. The interior of the enclosure is level and contains five huts in poor condition. All have levelled interiors and three have eastern entrances. The internal diameters vary 3.0 metres to 6.5 metres with double faced orthostatic walling averaging 1.3 metres wide by 0.5 metres high. One hut is attached to the inner face of the enclosure wall and two contiguous huts are built against the external face.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Walling remains of a Bronze age settlement north-west of Skitscombe Wood, Ugbrough consisting of an enclosure containing three hut circles, with another two on the northern boundary of the enclosure

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SE62
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441957
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/12

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Enclosure with two hut circles shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map, 119SE (Cartographic). SDV325644.

Crossing, W., 1912 (1965), Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, 389 (Monograph). SDV320981.

Near Glazemeet, elevation 244 metres. On rising ground west of the Glaze valley, near Glazemeet. A very fine enclosure with an almost complete wall. The only breaks in the wall are modern tracks. The enclosure is roughly circular. There are many huts; two huts of above average size, with medium sized stones forming the walls, were revealed in a survey of the site.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, 4076-4077 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

Two hut circles, 'A', SX 66706033 and 'B', SX 66716030 visible within an enclosure.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1977, SX66SE62 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV142135.

(27/03/1950) Enclosure of 109 metres diameter and hut circles.
A sub-circular enclosed settlement measuring 120 metres by 103.0 metres constructed of rubble walling 2.5 metres wide, with several modern gaps 2.0 metres to 3.0 metres wide with an apparently modern sunken trackway to the south-east. The interior of the enclosure is level and contains five huts in poor condition. All have levelled interiors and three have eastern entrances. The internal diameters vary 3.0 metres to 6.5 metres with double faced orthostatic walling averaging 1.3 metres wide and 0.5 metres high. One hut is attached to the inner face of the enclosure wall and two contiguous huts are built against the external face.
(23/12/1977) On a south-east slope at 245.0m. O.D. is a sub-circular enclosed settlement measuring 120.m by 103.0m. The enclosure is constructed of rubble walling, 0.'m. high and 2.5m. wide, with several modern gaps 2.0m to 3.0m. wide with an apparently modern sunken trackway to the south-east. The interior of the enclosure is level and contains five huts in poor condition.
All have levelled interiors; four are recognizable as type 2 (Type site; 2 SX 56 NE 71); and three have eastern entrances. The internal diameters vary 3.0m. to 6.5m. with double faced orthostatic walling averaging 1.3m. wide and 0.5m. high. One hut is attached to the inner face of the enclosure wall and two contiguous huts are built against the external face. Neither has a recognizable entrance and only one is identifiable by type. There is no evidence of an associated field system.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on M.S.D.

National Monuments Record, 1977, NMR SX6660, 2/354-355 (Aerial Photograph). SDV176911.

Photograph taken on 20th May 1977.

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

Enclosure containing two hut circles and one hut circle attached to external wall. Visible on aerial photographs.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 84-85, Map 56, Figure 56.3 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Prehistoric enclosure at 'Glaze Meet South'. A deeply worn track from Owley Gate enters and leaves the enclosure through wide breaches in its perimeter, originally a solid structure and still presenting a barrier 1.5 metres high when approached from the Glaze Brook. The enclosure has two free standing huts near the centre with two smaller buildings along the west wall and another against the east side. Three more circular structures are against the outside of the wall which may have been unroofed pens. The foundations of a small rectangular building against the north wall was probably a later tinners' cache.

Gerrard, S., 1993-2010, Monument Protection Programme Alternative Action Report, 2002 (Report - non-specific). SDV145710.

Considered under the Monument Protection Programme by previous Monument Protection Programme Advisor who did not recommend it for scheduling.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Enclosure visible on aerial photograph.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UGB16 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited 08/04/2019. Condition assessed as moderate; vegetation (bracken growth) the main damage agent.
Hut 1 SX66718 60307 Hut 2 SX66707 60334 Hut 3 SX66669 60284 Hut 4 SX66667 60301 Hut 6/7 SX66756 60358 Hut 8 SX66789 60299 Vegetation consists of bracken in the summer and soft rush. There is a recently split and fallen mature hawthorn tree in hut 2.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, UGB16 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Visited 08/04/2019 Photos X 9 taken giving coordinates for each.
1) 7) showing the path cutting through the enclosure bank at the north and south ends
2) SX66756 60358 looking east at both huts 6 and 7
3) SX66789 60299 looking north at hut 8
4) SX66676 60346 looking east north east at the holly and hawthorn on the northern part of the enclosure bank
5) SX66707 60334 looking west north west showing the fallen tree in hut 2
6) SX66718 60307 looking east south east at hut 1
8) SX6667 60301 looking south east at hut 4
9) SX66669 60284 looking north west at hut 3

Ordnance Survey, 2020, MasterMap 2020 (Cartographic). SDV363413.

Enclosure with five hut circles shown on modern mapping.

Riley, H., 2021, Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Landscape, Harford and Ugborough, 12, 7.2.2, Figure 3 (Report - Survey). SDV364697.

One of five enclosed settlements along the Glaze Brook valley between Owley Corner and Glaze Meet.

Riley, H., 2021, UG21 heritage asset database and gazetteer of sites (Report - Survey). SDV364699.

Visited on 20th April 2021, surveyed and photographed. Enclosure, Glaze Meet: 130 metres east to west, 110 metres north to south, tumbled stone walls up to 2 metres wide and 1.3 metres high, with upright facing stones, original entrances to the west and east. Hollowed trackway cuts through enclosure on south and north-west sides. Trees on northern enclosure bank and a fallen tree across Huts 2 and 3 and a path cuts through the enclosure.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8770 - Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Lanscape, Harford and Ugborough

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