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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1007540) describes a roughly circular enclosed settlement on a gentle west-facing slope at the edge of the disused Walla Brook tin streamworks. The enclosure is 68 metres long by 65 metres wide, with an entrance on the east and a rubble wall 1.8 metres wide and up to 0.8 metres high. The east and west stretches of the wall are lyncheted, and a later tin working has removed the north side. It lies in the parish of Peter Tavy, about 1.1 km south of Brat Tor and 2.5 km east of Lydford.
Nine hut circles belong to it: four attached to the inside of the wall, two to the outside, and three standing in the middle. Two short lengths of boundary wall also survive inside.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1007540, which cites the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX58SW75, 1981), Gibson, MPP Dartmoor: Evaluation of Enclosures (1988), and Gibson, Single Monument Class Description: Stone Hut Circles (1981 and 1987).
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1007540)
- Grid reference: SX 5369 8447 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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