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Summary

Probable remains of a hut circle; this feature has previously been identified as a cairn. One of several associated with settlement site north of Muddilake Brook.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Bronze Age enclosure with hut circles and field system at Smith Hill and Muddilake with late medieval or later enclosure banks or field system and streamworking along the brook to the west

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NW116
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442828
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/253

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Worth, R. H., 1939, 58th Report of the Barrow Committee, 69 (Article in Serial). SDV266637.

Possibly the "other" cairn referred to by Worth as being robbed out and reduced to a marginal ring.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX67NW56 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV266640.

Remains of a cairn.

Royal Air Force, 1964, 6399, 032-33 (Aerial Photograph). SDV228504.

Cairn circle visible on aerial photograph (Ordnance Survey assessment of photograph). Other details: F62.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX67NW56 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV346893.

(22/12/1979) On a slight south east slope at 358m OD and within a field system represented by crop marks (SX 67 NW 116) are two earth and stone circular banks. One at SX 62657519 has a level interior measuring 7.7m in diameter with a complete perimeter bank between 0.6m and 2.0m wide and up to 0.3m high. There is no sign of a cist or any internal stone.
The second, at SX 62757519, has a slightly sloping interior 10.0m in diameter, a bank 1.5m wide and 0.3m high, with a 3.3m gap in the south east. Both circles are covered with long coarse grass, but the banks seem to have a stone content although the interiors are clear of stone.
The circles and the field system show up well as crop marks on the low level NMR air photographs, though the field system is not traceable on the ground. This, together with the situation, a very low, broad spur, suggests that the circles represent huts and not robbed cairns. (For plan see SX 67 NW 59).
Surveyed at 1:10000 and at 1:2500 on MSD.

Fletcher, M. J., 1989, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV221643.

Bronze Age settlement site, with four identified hut circles and associated fields. The circles and the field system show up well as crop marks on the low level National Monuments Record air photographs though the field system is not traceable on the ground. This, together with the situation, a very low broad spur suggests that the circles represent huts and not robbed cairns.

Turner, J. R., 1990, Ring Cairns, Stone Circles and Related Monuments on Dartmoor, 32, 67 (Article in Serial). SDV229817.

Ring cairn, Muddilake. Stone ring 11.5 meters internal diameter with bank 1.2 meters wide and 0.2 meters high. There is a 1.5 meter wide entrance on the north side. Two face-down slabs, one of quartz, at the sides of the entrance. Other details: A37.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 63 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle depicted on Butler's map. Other details: Map 29, 9.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8640 - Spaders and Muddilake and Smith Hill Newtakes, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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