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Summary

Enclosed hut and seven detached hut circles. All the huts are very ruinous and overgrown, their average internal diameter is 6.6m, the largest being 8.2m and the smallest 4.0m. The walls average 1.4m thick. Two of them have entrances on the south. The enclosure measures 36.5m north-south and 31.0m east-west; its wall is 1.5m thick, with some orthostats on the outer face. There is a build-up of soil against the lower inside wall, but no evidence of clearance.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1010474: Enclosure with hut circles west of Corringdon Leat, Corringdon Ball
• SHINE: Remains of stone-walled Bronze Age enclosure and hut circles on the west side of Corringdon Ball

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SE47
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441910
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/72
• Old SAM County Ref: 522
• Old SAM Ref: 10863

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE (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 shown on 19th century map.

Royal Air Force, 1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2494, 4076-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDV147533.

Enclosure and hut circles visible.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1977, SX66SE47 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV178255.

(13/04/1950) One hut circle is in fair condition, with diameter of 7.0 metres.
(04/08/1977) Situated above Newland's Brakes on the south west slopes of Corringdon Ball is an enclosed hut and seven detached hut circles.
All the huts are very ruinous and overgrown, and are probably of Type 2 except a small hut adjacent to the enclosure which is probably Type 1. Their average internal diameter is 6.6m, the largest being 8.2m and the smallest 4.0m. The walls average 1.4m thick. Two of them have entrances on the south. The enclosure measures 36.5m north-south and 31.0m east-west; its wall is 1.5m thick, with some orthostats on the outer face. There is a build-up of soil against the lower inside wall, but no evidence of clearance. (Type sites: 1, SX 56 SE 19 and 2, SX 56 NE 71).
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

National Monuments Record, 1977, NMR SX6660, 3, 361-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDV176911.

Photograph taken on 20th May 1977.

Robinson, R., 1978, South Brent Parish Checklist (Un-published). SDV137445.

Site visited in April 1978. This pound with hut circles lies on Corringdon Ball immediately west of Corringdon Leat, on west sloping rocky ground which is overgrown with bracken in summer. There are two hut circles within the pound and one adjoining it on the south-east.

Anon, 1979, Corringdon Ball Enclosure, 53 (Report - non-specific). SDV178257.

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

Circular enclosure with one hut circle attached to internal wall and one incorporated into the wall. Visible on 1977 and 1948 aerial photographs.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 87-9, Map 56, Figures 56.5 & 56.6 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Enclosure 'B' at Corringdon Ball Enclosures' has only two hut circles in the circuit. Hut Circle '1' of 5.5 metres diameter on the northern perimeter and Hut Circle '2' of 4.5 metres diameter within the southern circuit wall. Hut Circle '3' of 5.2 metres diameter and its annex were connected by a line of slabs.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Roughly circular walled enclosure on west side of Corringdon Ball visible on aerial photograph. The enclosure contains a large hut circle attached to the wall on the north-west side. Part of a dispersed group of monuments on Corringdon Ball.

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

Enclosure visible on aerial photograph.

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

Enclosure shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2020, National Heritage List for England, 1010474 (National Heritage List for England). SDV363414.

This enclosure with hut circles lies on the south-western slope of Corringdon Ball, some 10 metres west of Corringdon Leat. It is built into the hillslope and there has been a considerable build up of soil on the uphill side of the enclosure bank. The enclosure measures 37 metres by 30 metres and has banks of boulders up to 4 metres in width and 1 metre in height. There are two hut circles within the enclosure. One, close to the north-west bank, measures 8 metres in diameter and has walls 1.5 metres in thickness and 0.75 metres in height and an entrance to the south. The other is attached inside the southern bank; it measures 4 metres in diameter and has walls 0.5 metres in thickness and 0.4 metres in height. A third hut circle is attached to the outside of the bank near the enclosure entrance at the south; it measures 5 metres in diameter and has walls 0.5 metres in thickness and 0.5 metres in height. There are traces of at least one further hut inside the enclosure.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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