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Summary

Three disturbed hut circles and several incomplete enclosures are visible at this location. One of the hut circles, althought robbed is in good condition.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018930: Two irregular aggregate field systems with associated settlements, part of a coaxial field system, boundary stones and historic fields on Riddon Ridge
• SHINE: Earthworks and stone walling remains of an extensive Bronze Age field system, reaves, enclosures, cairns and hut circle settlements on Riddon Ridge overlain with a medieval field system and associated enclosures and Whiteslade post-medieval farmstead

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NE11
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442457
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NE/7
• Old SAM County Ref: 791
• Old SAM Ref: 28733

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT (Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

1963, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV246821.

Enclosure and hut circle visible on os 6" (1963) map (rchm). This feature is only faintly visible the sw end with the hut circle appears to have gone (rchm citing aph).

AM, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV246824.

Des=ancient monuments/(2000). Vis=est -/-/2000 (ancient monuments) Pound and hut circle s of bellever bridge. appears to lie within scheduled area sam 28733 'two irregular aggregate field systems with associated settlements, part of a coaxial field system, boundary stones and historic fields on riddon ridge' (am).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV246825.

Osa=sx67ne11. Vis=19/7/1952 (os) hut circle quite distinct and undisturbed, pound very distinct. Pound(leng 55m, widt 36.5m), hut circle diam 6.40m.

Royal Air Force, 1964, RAF/F62/58/6399, 026-27 (Aerial Photograph). SDV272301.

This feature is only faintly visible. The south-west end with the hut circle appears to have gone.

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

Not visible on any aerial photograph available 06/08/1985.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1993-1998, Dartmoor Royal Forest Project (Report - Survey). SDV346608.

(27/08/1992) Centred SX 65827700. Three disturbed hut circles and several incomplete enclosures lie on a shelf on the west facing slope of Riddon Ridge just above the floodplain of the East Dart River.
The huts have been robbed though one (1) still survives in a fair condition. All the huts have been levelled into the gentle slope. Two huts (1) and (3) possess identifiable entrances. The associated enclosures are only partially preserved and constitute part of a much larger field system (SX 67 NE 10) that extended approximately 800m to the south-east. The field walls are typically of substantial boulder and slab construction between 1.0m to 1.5m wide and remaining to a maximum height of 0.5m.
For detailed 1:2500 plan see RCME Riddon Ridge survey.
A further table of information on the settlement is held in the NRHE archive.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8296 - Dartmeet Premier Archaeological Landscape (PAL) Field Investigation Project
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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