English Heritage lists Dunnabridge as a "later prehistoric pound", and a "medieval stock enclosure". The present-day structure closely follows that of its Bronze Age counterpart. Constant use throughout the centuries has resulted in virtually all the prehistoric features being obliterated but there are faint traces of two huts and some walling within the enclosure wall. This settlement was part of the Laughter Tor and Bellever Bronze Age 'metropolis'. It is amongst the most spectacularly well-preserved domestic structures on the Moor, a completely different type of enclosure from the independent farmsteads and apparently serving an alternative but perhaps complementary function to the field systems. This large enclosure design seems to be a comparative rarity amongst contemporary field systems in the lowland zone of Britain, and in its basic single-circuit form even with the neighbouring communities on Bodmin Moor.

Boddy Collection