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The Shaugh Moor Project: Second Report—The Enclosure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

G. J. Wainwright ,
K. Smith ,
N. Balaam ,
S. Beckett ,
S. Fordham ,
C. A. Jenkins ,
H. Keeley ,
C. Keepax ,
R. Macphail  and
R. L. Otlet
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K. Smith
Affiliation:
Central Excavation Unit, Department of the Environment
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The Shaugh Moor project is concerned with an area of moorland in south Dartmoor north-east and north respectively of the villages of Shaugh Prior and Wotter (fig. 1). The physical threat to the evidence for settlement and land-use caused by the operations of the China Clay industry involved the Central Excavation Unit of the Department of the Environment from 1976 in a programme of survey, excavation and environmental studies related to the settlements, land boundaries, burial mounds and ceremonial structures that are to be found on this piece of moorland. The background to the project and its preliminary research strategy have been outlined in Paper I (Wainwright et al. 1979) and this publication describes the investigation of a stone-walled enclosure surrounding houses and other structures that was totally excavated in 1977 and 1978. Subsequent papers will describe the related archaeological and scientific investigations into the past environment and land-use of this block of moorland and its adjacent region.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 46 , December 1980 , pp. 65 - 122
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1980

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