Source/Archive record SEM8002 - Dig Porlock: Earthwork surveys on Porlock Allotment

Four Bronze Age hut circles and hut platforms, a prehistoric enclosed settlement and an area of post-medieval peat cutting on Porlock Allotment, Exmoor National Park, were surveyed as part of the Dig Porlock project, run by the Exmoor Moorland Landscape Partnership Scheme. Dig Porlock aims to further our understanding of the moorland heritage through the active participation of the local community: volunteers and schools. The prehistoric remains on Porlock Allotment are extremely well preserved and two of the hut circles show evidence of formal ‘closure’ before they fell into disuse. The peat cutting dates from the post-medieval period and was carried out before the construction of a railway trackbed in the 1850s.