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This scheduled monument is an enclosure, likely dating to the Bronze Age or Iron Age, situated on open moorland northwest of Standon Down. The site is defined by low earthwork banks that would once have enclosed a settlement, offering shelter and protection on the exposed high moor. Such enclosures are common across Dartmoor and speak to long periods of habitation and land use on the moor itself.
Today the site remains as earthworks in the landscape, accessible to walkers crossing this part of the moor. It stands as evidence of how Dartmoor's interior was actively settled and managed in prehistory, before the climate and social changes that led to the moorland we know now. The remains are modest but legible to those who know what to look for.
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