Eylesbarrow reave, two enclosures and seven hut circles

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1013474) describes two enclosures with stone hut circles, a length of reave, a field boundary and a short length of leat on a west-facing slope of Eylesbarrow, above the valley of the Narrator Brook. It lies in the parish of Sheepstor, about 0.5 km south-east of Combeshead Tor and 3.2 km east of Sheepstor.

The southern enclosure is D-shaped and attached to the Eylesbarrow watershed reave. It is 65 metres east to west by 55 metres north to south, bounded by a boulder wall 1 metre wide and up to 0.7 metres high, with slight lynchets and rough lines of stones that may be internal divisions. Two huts stand inside, both circular, 4 metres across inside, with walls 0.6 and 0.7 metres high. The Eylesbarrow watershed reave, which runs about 7.5 kilometres from Cadworthy Wood to Eylesbarrow, dividing the Plym catchment from the Meavy, here climbs the south-west slope of Eylesbarrow for 340 metres from stream workings south of Combshead Tor to a gap, a bank of earth and stone up to 3 metres wide and 0.5 metres high.

The northern enclosure is joined to the reave by a winding lynchetted rubble bank 170 metres long, 2.7 metres wide and 0.8 metres high. It is irregular, 142 metres north to south by 112 metres east to west, bounded by a rubble wall 2 metres wide and 0.7 metres high. Five huts lie inside, circular apart from one double hut with an oval room, 3.6 to 5.2 metres across, averaging 4.36 metres, with walls 0.5 to 0.7 metres high. One hut has two rooms, four have visible doorways and one is attached to the boundary. A short dry length of leat cuts through the middle of the enclosure and once carried water from the upper Narrator Brook to tin works just south of the monument.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1013474, which cites Fleming, The Dartmoor Reaves (1988), page 54, the survey of the Upper Plym Valley (sheet 30a, 1985), Gibson, Single Monument Class Description: Stone Hut Circles (1987), the National Archaeological Record (SX56NE160), the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX56NE278, SX56NE488 and SX56NE76) and fieldwork for the Monuments Protection Programme by S. Gerrard.

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1013474)
• Grid reference: SX 5908 6845 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)