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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.
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