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Summary

An ovoid enclosure measuring 30 metres by 17.5 metres, containing a single hut circle. The north-eastern sector of the enclosure has been truncated by the imposition of a medieval wall bank, which runs north-west to south-east.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016255: Prehistoric and medieval settlements and their field systems at Hound Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX77NW92
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1044916
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77NW/393/1
• Old SAM Ref: 28786

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE (Late Neolithic to Late Iron Age - 3000 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140555, 1997 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Enclosure containing two hut circles 80 metres north-north-east of Hound Tor. Oval, 32 metres by 28 metres. Rubble bank wall 2.5 metres wide, 0.8 metres high. Possible entrance. Two attached huts. Later use: medieval field system.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume One - The East, Map 8.1 (Monograph). SDV299725.

Butler depicts the oval enclosure with four associated hut circles.

Newman, P. + Probert, S. + Riley, H., 1994/1995, Houndtor Down, Manaton, Devon - A New Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. (Report - Survey). SDV344628.

(06/02/1995) Centred SX 7435 7917. An ovoid enclosure containing a possible hut platform and traces of four further huts lie on the gently sloping north-east flank of Houndtor Down 150 metres north-east of the tor. The enclosure, bisected by a later cornditch measures 28 metres north-west to south-east by 20 metres and is marked on the north and east by stoney banks up to 2.5 metres wide and 1.3 metres high. The west and south sides are formed by a scarp 1.0 metre high, presumably partly the result of stone robbing. Little interior detail is apparent. Of the two hut circles depicted by Butler only one possible stance is recognisable as a crude ring of stones approximately 4.5 metres in diameter. There is no obvious entrance and the interior is sloping.

Newman, P., 2017, An Archaeological Survey of an area affected by burning on Hound Tor Down, Manaton, Devon, 2 (Report - Survey). SDV361522.

An ovoid enclosure measuring 30 metres by 17.5 metres, containing a single hut circle. The enclosure wall, which was terraced into the slope, has been heavily disturbed and comprises a flattened spread of random boulders with surviving traces spread up to 3.5 metres wide. Many of the stones have probably been robbed by later wall builders.
The north-eastern sector of the enclosure has been truncated by the imposition of a medieval wall bank, which runs north-west to south-east, though the earlier wall survives in place.

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

Visited 14/ 07/2019. Entire area totally inundated with bracken at a height of 1.5m which was too dense to even wade through. Impossible to conduct a meaningful survey of this site. Photo included to show the extent of the problem

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

Visited 14/07/2019 Photo included to show the extent of the problem with total bracken inundation

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7556 - Survey on Hound Tor Down

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