| Summary : A field system of possible Bronze Age/Iron Age date, consisting of an enclosure, ditch, field boundary and cairns, is visible as structures and earthworks on air photographs. The enclosure primarily consists of collapsed stone walls, some of which are partly covered and visible as earthworks, and is irregular in plan. A funnelled entrance is visible on the south-east corner of the enclosure, consisting of two linear, approximately parallel, banks. A number of stone cairns are visible within and without the enclosure. Some have hollows in the centre and others appear to have been remodelled in to post medieval/20th century shooting butts. Most of the features are extant on the latest 2009 oblique photography, though elements appear to have been demolished. |
More information : (Centred NZ 80650250) A group of 25 to 30 small stoney cairns,
average diameter 12-15ft (together with) an oval enclosure
488ft NE-SW, 230ft NW-SE, walled with small and large boulders
collected from natural outcrop. Very noticable after moor fire 1947.
Stones gathered in heaps forming small plots or ? fields similar in
size to those surrounding Struntry Carr Farm. Brown flint chippings.
There is some trace of iron slag and the site may be Iron Age.
"Sepulchral use of small cairns doubtful."
Enclosure and cairns visible on APs (a). (1)
Centred NZ 807025 a probable early field system covering an area
some 150m N-S by 200m E-W, and situated on the east-facing slope
of In Moor between the 650ft and 725ft contours. Clearance
cairns averaging 4m diameter and 0.5m in height are most
prominent under short heather growth in the NW, where they are
partially enclosed by a heavy stone rickle field wall (see AP).
This walling continues in fragmentary form to the SE, and here
smaller plots can be envisaged beneath a thick bracken cover.
There are no huts or other possible domestic enclosures
associated with the system. Iron slag has been used extensively
on moorland tracks in the vicinity, and its presence on the site
probably has no significance. (2)
(NZ 807025) Field System (NR) (3)
NZ 807025. "Stony cairns, enclosed by walling which may not be
of the same period", listed as a Bronze Age extensive settlement. (4)
NZ 808026. Iron Age field system comprising small rectangular
fields at Struntry Carr. (5)
NZ 807026. Cairns and enclosure at In Moor, Struntry Carr
(information identical with Authy 1). (6)
NZ 807026. Round barrows in In Moor, Struntry Carr, Scheduled. (7)
At NZ 80610250 an enclosed area of clearance cairns as described by various authors above. The enclosure is 148m x 80m and is enclosed by an apparently discontinuous stone bank . It does appear that the enclosure may have had an extension to the south east as suggested by author 2. There are possible roundhouses at the south east and the south west corners of the enclosure, each about ten metres in diameter. The air photograph from 25-JAN-2001 shows sixteen cairns inside the enclosure. None could be discerned outside. (8)
A field system of possible Bronze Age/Iron Age date, consisting of an enclosure, ditch, field boundary and cairns, is visible as structures and earthworks on air photographs, centred at NZ 8061 0250. The enclosure primarily consists of collapsed stone walls, some of which are partly covered and visible as earthworks, and is irregular in plan. The enclosure has maximum internal dimensions measuring 80m by 150m. A funnelled entrance is visible on the south-east corner of the enclosure, consisting of two linear, approximately parallel, banks, extending for a maximum length of 80m. A number of stone cairns are visible within and without the enclosure. Some have hollows in the centre and others appear to have been remodelled in to post medieval/20th century shooting butts. Most of the features are extant on the latest 2009 oblique photography, though elements appear to have been demolished.
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