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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dewerstone Alternative Name: Dewerstone Hill Pound; Dewerstone Neolithic Enclosure
Country: England County: Devon Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Nearest Village: Meavey
Map Ref: SX53876399
Latitude: 50.457492N Longitude: 4.059992W
Condition:

5	Perfect
4	Almost Perfect
3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0	No data.
-1	Completely destroyed

3 Ambience:

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4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
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no data Access:

5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
3	Requiring a bit more of a walk
2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4	co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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**Dewerstone** submitted by Bladup : Dewerstone rocks proto quoit to the south of the causewayed enclosure. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Causewayed Enclosure in Devon

The site is situated on a promontory spur in a bend of the River Plym on the southwest edge of Dartmoor. A low, double wall cuts off the promontory and links a number of rock outcrops. The hill slopes steeply on the other sides of the 3ha site (Mercer 1997, 58). The 1.5m thick walls have a 2.75m gap between then and five possible entrances (Devon Sites & Monuments Record).

The enclosed area contains a number of hut circles (Silvester 1979, 188). Oswald et al. (2001, 86) suggest that the double walls and gaps there in, resemble closely the structure of a causewayed enclosure.

Within the enclosure is another wall that has been assigned to the Bronze Age as it has a hut circle built into it. Situated on the southwest edge of Dartmoor on a romontory with steep drops to the south.

Source: The Early Neolithic Tor Enclosures of Southwest Britain, Simon R. Davies

The University of Birmingham Ph.D Thesis (PDF)

Update September 2019: This Hillfort, Neolithic Enclosure and Enclosed Settlement are featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for:
Dewerstone Fort;
Dewerstone Neolithic Enclosure; and
Dewerstone Hill Enclosed Settlement.

These enclosures are also recorded as:
Pastscape Monument No. 439553 [which describes this site as "A poorly preserved stone-built double walled enclosure, the outer of two enclosures ... Thought to represent the site of a Neolithic hilltop enclosure"] and
Pastscape Monument No. 915508 ["The inner of two enclosures. Fairly well-preserved remains of earth and stone built enclosure of Bronze Age date, with two associated hut circles"].

The Devon and Dartmoor HER also includes records for:
MDV2381 (Dewerstone Hill Pound);
MDV2380 (Dewerstone Enclosure or Hillfort); and
MDV63617 (Hut circle in enclosure on Dewerstone Hill).

This site is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1020241 (Prehistoric enclosures on Dewerstone Hill, 500m south east of Dewerstone Cottage).
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