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Summary

A sub-circular Enclosure 'D' (Butler) containing two hut circles adjacent to the south-west corner of the fence surrounding Venford Reservoir. The enclosure measures 23 metres north-south by 18 metres and is bounded by a turf-covered stoney bank 1.2 metres wide and around 0.4 metres high.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020095: Enclosed prehistoric settlement and round cairn 880m south west of Venford Reservoir dam

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE32
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442947
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/4
• Old SAM County Ref: 875
• Old SAM Ref: 22373.03

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSED SETTLEMENT (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, 4366-4367 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

Royal Air Force, 1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2588, 5052-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDV168641.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX67SE32 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV171027.

(26/04/1950) Enclosure and hut circles south-west of Holne Reservoir. A small circular enclosure (diameter 64m, wall height 0.2m) containing two hut circles. Walls of enclosure very poor, consisting of small stones and turf, the whole of which does not rise much more than 0.2m above ground level. Entrance not visible. The hut circle is attached to the enclosure wall. No obvious entrance.

Ancient Monuments, 1971, Notes on scheduled site (Schedule Document). SDV171019.

(04/02/1971) The remains of a dry stone wall enclosure, enclosing the remains of a hut circle.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX67SE32 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV171026.

(07/07/1977) SX 6807 7054: A homestead comprising an enclosure with two huts lies on a gentle well-drained slope at the east end of a small spur at 335 metres above OD. The circular enclosure, diameter 25 metres has a wall in poor condition about 1.4 metres wide internally faced with orthostats. The two terraced type III huts, average internal diameter 4 metres have south east facing entrances and are built on the line of the enclosure wall. The interior of the enclosure and adjacent hillside is clear of boulders but there is no evidence of cultivation. 1:10 000 survey revised on PFD.

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

Ovoidal-shaped enclosure with two incorporated hut circles visible on the 1946 Royal Air Force aerial photographs.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 189, Map 60, Figure 60.9, (Monograph). SDV337765.

Enclosure 'D' at 'Venford Valley South famsteads' is a relatively well-preserved oval measuring 28.5 metres by 18.0 metres, with a pair of huts attached to the west side of the thin walled circuit.

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 1997, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (Report - Survey). SDV173671.

(18/04/1996) Centred SX 6807 7054: A sub-circular enclosure containing two hut circles adjacent to the south-west corner of the fence surrounding Venford Reservoir. The enclosure measures 23 metres north-south by 18 metres and is bounded by a turf-covered stoney bank 1.2 metres wide and around 0.4 metres high. Inside and adjacent to the west edge of the enclosure are two hut circles (see related record).

Ancient Monuments, 2000-2001, Enclosed prehistoric settlement and round cairn 880m south-west of Venford Reservoir Dam (Schedule Document). SDV153094.

Settlement includes at least four enclosures, of which this is the central. Oval. Abuts two earlier huts along its western circuit. A length of curving wall to north-east probably represents an outlying part.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Enclosure shown on survey.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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