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Summary

Fragmentary remains of a 'V' - shaped enclosure, with walling of rubble construction now measuring barely 1.0m. wide and 0.3m. high. This walling may be part of the reave noted by Fleming. The east side of the enclosure overlies a stretch of fragmentary walling of similar construction which is 82.0m. long and extends in a north east direction to abut on an enclosed homestead.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthworks and walling remains of a Bronze Age settlement south-west of Black Tor, consisting of six enclosures, associated hut circles, a section of reave, cairns, a stone row and at least eight medieval pillow mounds
• Scheduled Monument 1002505: Three enclosed hut groups, Black Tor, Shipley Bridge

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SE117
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442108
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/92
• Old SAM County Ref: 384

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE (Constructed, Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Crossing, W., 1912 (1965), Crossing's Guide to Dartmoor, 369 (Monograph). SDV320981.

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs, 1890 2278-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Photograph taken on 10th December 1946.

National Monuments Record, 1976, NMR SX6763, 2/56-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169271.

Photograph taken on 8th April 1976.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX66SE117 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV145191.

(07/12/1977) Centred at SX 678633, on a flattish area west of Black Tor, at approximately 330m. OD, are the fragmentary remains of a 'V' - shaped enclosure, with walling of rubble construction now measuring barely 1.0m. wide and 0.3m. high. This walling may be part of the reave noted by Fleming (SX 66 SE 118).
The east side of the enclosure overlies a stretch of fragmentary walling of similar construction which is 82.0m. long and extends in a north east direction to abut on an enclosed homestead (SX 66 SE 34).
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

Robinson, R., 1977-1979, South Brent Parish Checklist (Worksheet). SDV151046.

Site visited on 2nd March 1977. North of the three pounds marked on the Ordnance Survey 6 inch map above Shipley Bridge, which are well preserved are three more. They are little more than 'ghost' pounds with very low walls largely made visible by the greater growth of heather and bilberry along them. Crossing remarks that they are fragmentary and difficult to trace. The most easterly has a doubtful hut circle at the north-east corner against the outside of the pound wall, diameter 6 metres, walls 0.5 metres high, the centre obscured by tumbled stone, and the central one a more doubtful one at the south east. The pounds can be faintly seen on the RAF vertical photograph of 1946. The Zeal Reave crosses the most westerly pound and forms the north wall of the central one.

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

Enclosure faintly seen on 1946 and 1976 aerial photographs with a possible hut circle in the west. Appears at the end of a reave.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 101-2, Map 57, Figure 57.1 (Monograph). SDV337765.

One of at least seven enclosures on Black Tor. Remains of Enclosure 'B' with a reave crossing it.

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

Part of enclosure shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2020, National Heritage List for England, 1002505 (National Heritage List for England). SDV363414.

Visited on 5th February 1957. Third of three hut groups at Black Tor, Shipley Bridge. Enclosure with single hut attached to the wall on the upper side - a small hut or pen adjoins it. The enclosure wall is slight and ruined. The entrance is at the north west and there are two other gaps on the west side. A bomb crater has turned into a raised bog.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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