Broadun Enclosed Settlement
Database entries
OS Map: SX 6354 7993
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV5946
Megalithic Portal: 26043
Alternate name: Broadun
Short Name: ES:Broadun
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Lidar: SX 6354 7993
Guide Map: 26
Nearest Bus Stop: Postbridge Post Office (2.1 km) [Route: 98,171]
Nearby sites: SX 6354 7993
Notes
"An enclosed settlement, maximum dimensions 300m NE/SW by 250m NW/SE, giving an area of 6ha. Enclosure cut through on SE by a leat, but wall still visible. Inside are 36 huts, and a further 3 outside. Condition of huts mainly poor. Average internal diameter is 3.7m: the largest is 13m by 10.5m, the smallest 2.5m. The enclosure wall appears contemporary with or later than the huts. The interior of the enclosure appears to have been cleared." See also HER entry 6800References
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.
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Burnard, Robert, Exploration of the hut circles in Broadun Ring and Broadun, T.D.A. Vol.26 pp.185-196 (1894)
- Prowse, Arthur B., The Ancient Metropolis of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.23 pp.307-14 (1891)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Prehistoric Pounds of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.75 pp.273-302 (1943)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Dartmoor Hut Circles, T.D.A. Vol.77 pp.225-256 (1945)