Source/Archive record SEM8002 - Dig Porlock: Earthwork surveys on Porlock Allotment
Type | Report |
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Title | Dig Porlock: Earthwork surveys on Porlock Allotment |
Author/Originator | Riley, H. |
Date/Year | 2013 |
Hazel Riley report | DP2013 |
ENPA project name | Dig Porlock |
ENPA project name | EMLPS |
Digital Object Identifier | 10.5284/1027560 |
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Abstract/Summary
Four Bronze Age hut circles and hut platforms, a prehistoric enclosed settlement and an area of post-medieval peat cutting on Porlock Allotment, Exmoor National Park, were surveyed as part of the Dig Porlock project, run by the Exmoor Moorland Landscape Partnership Scheme. Dig Porlock aims to further our understanding of the moorland heritage through the active participation of the local community: volunteers and schools. The prehistoric remains on Porlock Allotment are extremely well preserved and two of the hut circles show evidence of formal ‘closure’ before they fell into disuse. The peat cutting dates from the post-medieval period and was carried out before the construction of a railway trackbed in the 1850s.
External Links (1)
- https://doi.org/10.5284/1027560 (Report via ADS website)
Referenced Monuments (14)
- MSO7902 Bronze Age burial cairn on Porlock Allotment (Monument)
- MEM22440 Cairn of uncertain date on Porlock Allotment (Monument)
- MSO7904 Enclosure, Porlock Allotment (Monument)
- MSO7946 Hut circle or ring cairn on Porlock Common (Monument)
- MSO7945 Hut Circle, Porlock Common (Monument)
- MMO2525 Peat Cutting, Black Mires above Weir Water (Monument)
- MEM22441 Possible field boundary of unknown date on Porlock Allotment (Monument)
- MEM22438 Possible prehistoric field boundary on Porlock Allotment (Monument)
- MEM22439 Possible prehistoric field boundary on Porlock Allotment (Monument)
- MEM22437 Possible prehistoric mound on Porlock Allotment (Monument)
- MSO7907 Prehistoric Settlement, Porlock Allotment (Monument)
- MEM22436 Prehistoric standing stone on Porlock Allotment (Monument)
- MSO7911 Prehistoric Stone setting on Porlock Allotment (Monument)
- MSO7906 Simonsbath to Porlock Railway (Monument)
Referenced Events (1)
- EEM14139 2013: GPS - Porlock Allotment, Dig Porlock
Record last edited
Dec 12 2018 12:20PM