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Summary

Enclosure 'X' of 95 metres by 90 metres with walls 1.4 metres wide by 0.7 metres high with five or six hut circles. One of five enclosures between White Hill and Small Brook

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/20/3
• 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, SX69SW18, Plan (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV222053.

Visited on 9th August 1950. Enclosure 'X' and six hut circles one of five enclosures between White Hill and Small Brook. Enclosure abutting directly onto the Small Brook. Walling vague and difficult to trace along most of its length. Hut 'a' (diameter 3.5 metres) vague with no obvious entrance Hut 'b' (diameter 3.5 metres) same as 'a'. Hut 'c' (diameter 5 metres) probably double walled type with possible entrance to north-east opening into enclosure. Hut 'd' (diameter 9.5 metres) large double walled entrance to north. Hut 'e' (diameter 7 metres) wall of large stones entrance to north-east. Hut 'f' (diameter 8.5 metres) wall of large stones no obvious entrance.

National Monuments Record, 1977, SX6290, 3 (Aerial Photograph). SDV222054.

Photograph taken on 18th May 1977.

National Monument Record, 1979, SF1510, 359-373 (Aerial Photograph). SDV224088.

Photograph taken on 26th April 1979.

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

Enclosure visible and recorded with five hut circles, one attached and one incorporated into its walls.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140774 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(14/06/1996) SX 6266 9059. Simple sub-circular enclosure forming part of a discrete concentration of structures which together with other nucleations form a large settlement complex. The enclosure survives as 95 metres by 90 metres area defined by a rubble wall with occasional orthostats measuring 1.4 metres wide and 0.7 metres high. One hut circle is attached to the inner face of the enclosure wall, one is linked to it and a further two lie within its circuit. A short length of the south-west side of the enclosure has been removed by tin streamworking within the small brook valley.

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

Sub-circular Enclosure '3' on the east bank of Small Brook where the boundary has been partly destroyed by tinners' workings. A large hut of 7.8 metres diameter with internal divisions is centrally placed with a second to the west with a tall jamb stone at the entrance. Two more huts are in the circuit wall with a fifth just outside to the south.

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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