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Summary

Rectangular enclosure on ridge between the West and East Glaze Brook valleys of 110 metres by 40 metres with a stony bank 3.5 metres wide by 0.5 metres high with upright facing stones particulalry evident on south side. Original entrace gap on more rounded east side is oriented to long cairn on Corringdon Ball. North-west corner contains arrangement of recumbent and upright stones. A few extraction pits scattered across interior of enclosure.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Prehistoric rectangular enclosure 250 metres north of Glasscombe Corner with low ruinous walls entirely destroyed on the east and north-west sides

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SE114
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442099
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/25

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• RECTANGULAR ENCLOSURE (Constructed, Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Robinson, R., 1978-1985, Ugborough Parish checklist (Worksheet). SDV141520.

Field enclosure length 78 metres, width 27.4 metres at 335 metres OD. Sited on the hill between East and West glaze, about 91 metres south of the cairn which stands on the summit. Rectangular in shape the south-east side has the appearance of a low reave; other sides are detected by lines of small stones and a slight elevation of the ground.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX66SE114 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV142297.

(02/05/1979) On a south-east facing slope at SX 66366126 is a rectangular-shaped enclosure measuring 100 metres by 35 metres. The walls are low, spread and ruinous, up to 1.5 metres thick and 0.3 metres high, and have been entirely destroyed on the east and north-west sides. There is no obvious entrance; the interior may have been cleared but the hillside is relatively rock-free. Found during field investigation.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

National Monuments Record, 1980, NMR SF1743, 72-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDV161746.

Photograph taken on 9th April 1980.

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

Rectangular enclosure visible on 1980 aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 93, Map 56 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Large rectangular enclosure of 112 metres by 34 metres. The surrounding bank is a typically prehistoric type of construction of double slabbed wall with rubble infill. Though now only 0.3 metres high and badly eroded with few stones in place it was probably never substantial and the slightly curved east wall has almost gone. The flat interior is undivided and there are no associated hut circles so its function is uncertain.

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.

Cartographic Engineering, 2006, Dartmoor 2006 1:1250 Aerial Photography (digital) (Aerial Photograph). SDV345590.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Riley, H., 2021, Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Landscape, Harford and Ugborough, 9, 7.1.3, Figure 8 (Report - Survey). SDV364697.

A large rectangular enclosure 110 metres by 40 metres defined by a spread stony bank with a rounded east end, occupies the ridge between the West Glaze Brook and the East Glaze Brook. The entrance is oriented towards the Corringdon Ball chambered cairn. The enclosure has no absolute dates but has parallels with long mortuary enclosures which are generally associated with human burials dated to the Early Neolithic and Middle Neolithic periods (circa 3200-2500 BC). Most of these sites occur in eastern England but a site on Challacombe Common, on the western edge of Exmoor has recently been identified as a probable long mortuary enclosure.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

Not shown on modern mapping.

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

Visited on 20th March 2021, surveyed and photographed. Rectangular enclosure on ridge between the West and East Glaze Brook valleys: 110 metres east to west by 40 metres north to south, defined by turf-covered stony bank, 3.5 metres wide, 0.5 metres high, with upright facing stones particulalry evident on south side; original entrace gap on more rounded east side is oriented to long cairn on Corringdon Ball; north-west corner contains arrangement of recumbent and upright stones; a few extraction pits scattered across interior of 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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