Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1018916) describes the larger part of the coaxial field system known as Throwleigh Common, with six settlements of about the same date, a length of territorial reave between the North Teign and Cosdon territories, at least 27 cairns, two lengths of leat, three shelters, a building and two boundary stones. The scheduling falls into two areas. It lies across the parishes of Throwleigh and Gidleigh, about 0.5 km north-west of Shilstone Tor and 2.7 km north-west of Gidleigh.
The fields share one prevailing axis, cut by transverse boundaries. Two settlements lie within them. The largest is a scatter of at least 27 hut circles over the western slopes of Throwleigh Common, 3 to 10.5 metres across inside, averaging 6.7, some of the best preserved on Dartmoor, with ten walls over a metre high. Eighteen have visible doorways and 11 are attached or linked to the field system. The second is a single hut at SX 65459050, 5.5 metres across with a single-upright wall 0.8 metres wide and 0.6 metres high on its west side. Of the settlements outside the fields, one at SX 64959012 has six huts with irregular fields and clearance cairns, one at SX 65078977 is a line of at least eight unenclosed huts with two round cairns nearby, one has two huts with an enclosure and walls from the reave, and the sixth, beside the Gallaven Brook, is a D-shaped enclosure holding two huts. Most of the cairns are probably clearance stone, though some were certainly built for burial.
Later remains include a length of the Bradford Leat, built in the mid-16th century to serve a tinwork at Bradford Pool. The leat is about 19.3 kilometres long and one stretch is still in use, while the moorland lengths survive as earthworks. Here it averages 1.7 metres wide and 0.7 metres deep with a bank 2 metres wide and 0.6 metres high, and it is known to have become disused after 1697. Among the historic buildings, most are shelters for upland grazing, but the one at SX 65549044 may have been a dwelling. Two post-medieval boundary stones on the territorial reave were set up to mark the edge of Throwleigh parish, and one no longer stands on the parish boundary, which may show how the boundary shifted.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1018916, which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities (1991), page 197, and fieldwork for the Monuments Protection Programme by S. Gerrard (1997 and 1998). Comments on the Historic England page include Sandy Gerrard's photograph of a roundhouse at SX 65822 90196 and a 2017 note from Historic England on its 2007 survey of the settlement and reave system on Throwleigh Common, which recorded 25 hut circles within 49 hectares; I have not used them.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1018916)
- Grid reference: SX 6539 9046 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
