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Summary

Small enclosure with central hut, 30 metres north-west of Hound Tor farmstead. The hut sits on a terrace formed by an arced natural escarpment to the west, the rim of which has vestiges of a stone wall in places. Defining the eastern edge of the levelled area, a much tumbled wall survives as a slight stony lynchet. Together, these features may be interpreted as an approximately triangular enclosure. Overlain by later medieval field boundaries, some of which reuse the older prehistoric divisions.

Location

Protected Status

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

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX77NW92
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77NW/393/6
• Old SAM Ref: 28786(P)
• Pastscape: 1044916

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140558, 20/5/1995 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Enclosure containing a hut circle 140 metres north-east of Hound Tor. Oval. 42 metres by 23 metres. Rubble bank wall 1.5 metres wide, 0.7 metres high. Later use: medieval field system.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume One - The East, 52, Map 8.2 (Monograph). SDV299725.

Butler shows a roughly triangular shaped enclosure with central hut circle disturbed by later medieval boundary.

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

The enclosure centred SX 74467915 depicted by Butler is a combination of later field boundaries and natural features.

Newman, P., 2017, An Archaeological Survey of an area affected by burning on Hound Tor Down, Manaton, Devon, 2-3, D on Fig. 2 (Report - Survey). SDV361522.

Enclosure and hut circle SX 74466 79141
A hut circle within a small enclosure, 30 metres north-west of Hound Tor farmstead. The hut sits on a terrace formed by an arced natural escarpment to the west, the rim of which has vestiges of a stone wall in places. Defining the eastern edge of the levelled area, a much tumbled wall survives as a slight stony lynchet. Together, these features may be interpreted as an approximately triangular enclosure. This was later incorporated into the medieval fields when earth bank extensions were added to the north and western points of the triangle and an additional stone-faced wall was built bisecting both the enclosure and the hut circle, though the latter survived. The foot of the escarpment contains a concentration of large boulders which may have been deposited naturally or, perhaps, resulted from a period of clearance in advance of the land to the north-west being cultivated in the medieval period or later.

Various, 2018-2019, PALs Condition Recording forms, HT2 (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, 2018-2019, PALs Condition Recording photographs, HT2 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Visited 17/07/2019 Photo showing bracken inundation problem across entire site

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7556 - Survey on Hound Tor Down

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