Dewerstone Neolithic Enclosure
Database entries
OS Map: SX 538 639
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV2380
Megalithic Portal: 29453
Alternate name: Dewerstone
Short Name: NE:Dewerstone
Butler map: 48.1
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Lidar: SX 538 639
Nearest Bus Stop: Shaugh Prior Shaugh Bridge (0.6 km) [Route: 59]
Nearby sites: SX 538 639
Notes
A poorly preserved stone-built double walled enclosure, the outer of which is thought to represent the site of a Neolithic hilltop enclosure. "The outer enclosure is potentially Neolithic, while the inner is probably of Bronze Age date. The stone-built double wall of the outer enclosure is poorly preserved with an average height of 0.7m, and given its loose composition is unlikely to have stood higher than 1.5m. The inner and outer walls now have average widths of 4.0m and 3.4m respectively. Five probable or possible entrances through the double wall were identified; the existence of so many may support the hypothesis that the enclosure is of Neolithic date." See also Dartmoor Tor Enclosures Project.References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER or PMD record above.
- Basell L, Bray L, Webber H, Randall S, Crabb A, Dartmoor Tor Enclosures Survey, PAST newsletter of the Prehistoric Society No. 95 Summer 2020 (2020)
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Fox, Aileen, South-West England, 3500 BC-AD 600, (1973)
- Pilkington-Rogers, C. W., The Date of the Dartmoor Antiquities, T.D.A. Vol.64 pp.379-388 (1932)
- Silvester, R., The Relationship of First Millennium Settlement to the Upland Areas of the South West., D.A.S.P. No.37 pp.178-179 (1979)
- Todd, Malcolm, The South West to AD 1000, (1987)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Prehistoric Pounds of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.75 pp.273-302 (1943)