← Browse Prehistoric Settlements · Browse the directory
Main image: Photo: Nigel Cox, Wikimedia Commons
This enclosure on Cator Common is a scheduled monument of likely Bronze Age or Iron Age origin. It forms part of the complex pattern of settlement and land use that shaped Dartmoor's prehistoric landscape, when communities moved stock across the moorland and built defended or stock-management enclosures to structure their lives and livelihood.
Today the site is a subtle earthwork among the open moor, rewarding those who walk the ground carefully. It sits within the wider archaeological context of Riddon Brake and the moorland around it, where the accumulated evidence of thousands of years of human activity remains embedded in the landscape.
Contact us if you have information about this listing
Official record
Explore the area
Go deeper with Dartefacts
Dartefacts is a database of Dartmoor sites with far more close-up detail than we can show here, and it is the best place to go deeper. Dartefacts is free to use, and nobody has to pay to look things up. If you want more, a yearly subscription adds 10-figure grid references, map zoom down to 1:25,000 and lists to tick off the places you have visited, and it helps keep the site going. We would encourage you to subscribe.
Thoughts
Be the first to share a thought about Enclosure near Riddon Brake.
Share a thoughtKnow another Dartmoor place, tor or landmark we should include? Suggest a listing, it is free.
Suggest a listing