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Summary

Hut circle 'D' of 5.2 metres by 6 metres with walls up to 2.3 metres wide by 0.45 metres high within the settlement to the north-east of Cox Tor on Petertavy Great Common

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011389: Sixteen stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on the north-east slope of Cox Tor
• SHINE: Earthworks and surviving stone walling of Bronze Age hut circle settlements and medieval or later prospecting pits on Petertavy Great Common, to north-east of Cox Tor

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NW/3/4
• Old SAM Ref: 20396
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX57NW33
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

One of the 'Hut Circles' shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX57NW33, SX57NW33 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV228332.

Pattison, P., 1987, Settlement north-east of Cox Tor - Field Investigation (Report - Assessment). SDV241190.

Visited on 1st December 1987. Hut circle 'D' at SX53547656 of 5.2 to 6 metres in internal diameter with walls 1.5 to 2.3 metres wide and 0.3 to 0.45 metres high, composed of partly turf-covered small-medium size stone rubble. Its plan is almost D-shaped with the bar of the 'D' upslope. The interior is terraced into the slope by cutting in an embankment to 0.45 metres. There is a possible entrance in the southern arc.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Visited in 1992. D-shaped hut. Internal dimension 5.2 - 6.0 metres. Rubble bank wall 2 metres wide, 0.45 metres high. Doorway to south.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 84-85, Map 31, Figure 31.2 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle to the west of Enclosures 'D' and 'E' within the large settlement to the noerht-east of Cox Tor.

Newman, P., 2019, Prehistoric Settlements North and South of Wedlake (Supplementary survey report) (Report - Survey). SDV363726.

Hut circle shown on survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2022, Mastermap 2022 (Cartographic). SDV364674.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 1011389 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8292 - Survey of the prehistoric settlements north and south of Wedlake

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