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HER Number: | MDV57439 |
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Name: | Enclosure on east side of Langcombe Brook, Shaugh Prior |
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Summary - not yet available
Location
Grid Reference: | SX 605 668 |
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Map Sheet: | SX66NW |
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Admin Area | Dartmoor National Park |
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Civil Parish | Shaugh Prior |
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District | South Hams |
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Ecclesiastical Parish | SHAUGH PRIOR |
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Protected Status
Other References/Statuses
- National Monuments Record: SX66NW41
- National Record of the Historic Environment: 441679
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NW/210
- Old SAM Ref: 28787
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- ENCLOSURE (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)
Full description
Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140542, add 38. Doc. (Report - Survey). SDV277946.
Visited on 9th May 1996. Oval enclosure of simple type lying adjacent to the Langcombe Brook of 40 metres by 36 metres with a rubble bank wall 2 metres wide by 0.4 metres high. One linked hut circle.
Robertson, J. G., 1991, The Archaeology of the Upper Plym (Post-Graduate Thesis). SDV166324.
Five structures and traces of a fragmentary enclosure are depicted by Robertson.
Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 148, Map 50 (Monograph). SDV137656.
Traces of an enclosure wall in the Langcombe valley sited close to Deadmans Bottom with two or three small hut circles. Streamworks have resulted in the loss of the lower part of the site and possibly some buildings, but it could never have been more than a modest homestead.
Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 102.1174. (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.
Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey (Report - Survey). SDV350782.
(13/02/2002) Centred SX 60596687. The remains of four hut circles (one previously recorded as SX 66 NW 44), a ruinous rectangular structure and the truncated remains of an associated sub-divided enclosure. These features lie immediately outside the streamworks flanking the right bank of Langcombe Brook and may have formed part of a more extensive settlement since disturbed by industrial activity.
The hut circles are all terraced into the foot of the steep SW facing slope and are generally in poor condition.
SX 60596686. Hut circle 8.2m in diameter, walls 1.1m wide 0.4m high. Possible entrance in SE.
SX 60616686. Hut circle badly disturbed by track. 3.1m in diameter.
SX 60626685. Hut circle badly disturbed by track. 3.4m diameter with walls 0.5m wide and 0.2m high.
SX 60626684. D-shaped hut circle 3.2m by 3.5m in diameter with walls 0.6m wide and 0.2m high. This feature previously recorded as SX 66 NW 44.
Immediately to the N of these features and abutting the hut circle at SX 60596686 are the remains of an enclosure measuring 46m NW to SE by 38m. Partially enclosed by a stony bank up to 1.5m wide and 0.5m high this feature has been truncated by the streamworks immediately to the SW of the site. The interior of the enclosure was formerly sub-divided by a similar stoney bank.
At SX 66616685, amongst the hut circles, are the remains of an open-ended rectangular structure measuring 4.3m N to S by 2.7m internally. The interior is largely rubble filled and the enclosing walls measure 0.7m wide and 0.6m high. The origin of this building would appear to be later than the features around it and is possibly allied to the tinworking activity in the immediate area.
English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.
Sub-oval enclosure shown on survey.
Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1016145 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.
Partly within the scheduled area.
Sources / Further Reading
SDV137656 | Monograph: Butler, J.. 1994. Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West. Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West. Three. Paperback Volume. 148, Map 50. |
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SDV143510 | Report - non-specific: Thackray, C.. 1994. The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape. 102.1174.. |
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SDV166324 | Post-Graduate Thesis: Robertson, J. G.. 1991. The Archaeology of the Upper Plym. |
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SDV277946 | Report - Survey: Gerrard, S.. 1990-2002. Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset.. Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset.. Mixed Archive Material + Digital. MPP 140542, add 38. Doc.. |
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SDV345521 | Cartographic: English Heritage. 2005-2008. Prehistoric Survey Information. English Heritage. Digital. [Mapped feature: #130638 ] |
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SDV350782 | Report - Survey: Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J.. 2002. Plym Valley survey. English Heritage Archaeological Investigation Report. Unknown. |
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SDV364016 | National Heritage List for England: Historic England. 2021. National Heritage List for England. Digital. 1016145. |
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Associated Monuments
MDV57433 | Parent of: Hut circle on south side of enclosure east of Langcombe Brook, Shaugh Prior (Monument) |
MDV57424 | Related to: Enclosure 200 metres north-east of the Langcombe Brook, Shaugh Prior (Monument) |
MDV57436 | Related to: Hut circle on east bank of Langcombe Brook, Shaugh Prior (Monument) |
MDV57432 | Related to: Hut circle on the east bank of Langcombe Brook, Shaugh Prior (Monument) |
MDV5130 | Related to: Hut circle south of enclosure on east side of Langcombe Brook, Shaugh Prior (Monument) |
MDV5131 | Related to: Hut circle to east of Langcombe Brook, Shaugh Prior (Monument) |
MDV57420 | Related to: Tinners' Hut within earlier hut circle east of Langcombe Brook, Shaugh Prior (Building) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
Date Last Edited: | Jan 13 2022 1:00PM |
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