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Summary

Enclosure 'W' of 52 metres by 46 metres with walls 1.6 metres wide by 0.9 metres high is one of five enclosures between White Hill and Small Brook containing one hut circle with an adjoining small paddock and a length of walling curving to the south

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1015760: A prehistoric settlement complex, length of reave, tin streamwork and stamping mill on the western slopes of Cosdon Hill

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX69SW/20/2
• Old SAM Ref: 28800

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX69SW18, photograph/plan. (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV224152.

Enclosure W (51m by 40m) and pound (diameter 15.5m, height 0.7m); one of five enclosures between White Hill and Small Brook. (09/08/1950) Enclosure wall well defined and composed of large stones mostly fallen no obvious entrance. On the north-west perimeter are remains of what must be small pound composed of unusually large stones. Two large stones presumably door jambs mark possible entrance to the south-south-east.

National Monuments Record, 1979, NMR SF1510, 359-373 (Aerial Photograph). SDV273995.

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

Strawberry-shaped enclosure with a sub-circular agglomeration (perhaps primary) built into its northern wall visible on the 1979 aerial photograph. The sub-circular enclosure contains one attached hut circle, and there is another hut circle attached to the outer wall of the main enclosure (two fragments of reave are also visible, one attached to the south of the enclosure).

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140777 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(14/06/1996) Agglomerated enclosure forming part of a discrete concentration of structures which together with other nucleations form a large settlement complex. The primary element of the enclosure survives as an 18m by 16m circular area defined by a 1.6m wide and 0.9m high orthostatic wall. The secondary element is attached to the south-east side and survives as 52m by 46m sub-oval area defined by a wall of similar character to the first. A length of boundary wall leading s from this enclosure may indicate that there was a third element to this agglomerated enclosure, but its extent and character remains unknown. A hut circle is linked to the northern length of the primary enclosure walling.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 200-202, 230, Map 40 Figure 40.1 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Small Brook setttlement '2' at SX626907 covering 0.15 hectares with one hut circle. Enclosure '2' to the north of Small Brook with one hut circle of 3.5 metres diameter on the north side of a paddock of 12.5 metres across which is attached to the enclosure wall. A pair of tall pillars, one flat and the other leaning in the paddock wall opposite the hut look as though they once formed a monumental entrance. The curved bank to the south of the enclosure may originally have connected to the reave to the west.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour aerial photography for Dartmoor (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.

Enclosure shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1015760 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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