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Summary

Western of three stone hut circles forming part of a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement. A crude circle of stones open to the west of 4.2 metres by 3.2 metres internally

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020052: Three stone hut circles 340m west of Hen Tor forming part of a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE81
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 438732
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/173/6
• Old SAM Ref: 24227

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1979, SX56NE81, Hut F (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV163217.

(02/06/1950) SX 5897 6526 Hut F. Diameter 4.5m; wall of small stones with little turf covering, 0.3m high. No obvious entrance.
(29/01/1979) Along the banks of Hentor Brook from 356.0m to 370.0m OD are eight Type 1 huts and two Type 2 huts. The internal diameters of 3.3m and walling of 1.3m width and 0.7m height. All have southern entrances and levelled interiors and the majority are in poor condition. The Type 2 huts are at SX 58946517 and SX 59076518; the latter has a windbreak and the hut at SX 59006524 has two orthostats marking its entrance. Fragments of walling are visible in places in the boggy area around the huts suggesting a possible enclosure or the remains of fields.
(Type sites 1: SX 56 SE 19, 2: SX 56 NE 71).
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Not visible on the Royal Air Force vertical aerial photographs.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140383, 18/5/1995 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Two huts at SX 5899 6525. Terraced into the hillslope and of the conjoined plan and rubble bank walling type.
Interior of the western hut measures 4m in diameter and the surrounding 0.9m wide wall stands up to 0.3m high. The south-east wall of this building is joined to another hut which survives as a 3m diameter internal area defined by a 1.4m wide wall standing up to 0.6m high.
The National Trust report describes the western hut as a length of wall. It however looks much more like a stone hut circle.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 122-3, map 49, Figure 49.8 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Two hut circles and a curved section of wall to the west shown on the south side of an area of 'surface stone' to the south of Enclosure 'C' at 'Upper Hentor Brook'.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 144/ 102.514-5 (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

(22/03/2002) Centred SX 5898 6521. A cluster of six unenclosed hut circles lie in open moorland some 400m south of Hentor House. With one exception (Butler's 'cairn') the huts lie on the right bank of Hentor Brook. Most of the huts are poorly preserved, now existing as crude circles of upright stones but all are terraced into the gentle north-west facing slope to provide level interiors. One hut is adjoined by a short length of contemporary walling.
SX 5898 6526. A crude circle of stones open to the west. Measures 4.2m north to south by 3.2m internally.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Western of three hut circles shown on survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

Western of three hut circles shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1020052 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

This monument includes three stone hut circles forming part of a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement situated on a gentle north west facing slope overlooking the valley of the River Plym. The stone hut circles survive as banks of earth and stone each surrounding a circular internal area. The interior of the western stone hut circle measures 4 metres in diameter and the surrounding 0.9 metres wide wall stands up to 0.3 metres high. The south eastern wall of this building is joined to another hut which survives as a 3 metres diameter internal area defined by a 1.4 metres wide wall standing up to 0.6 etres high. The third stone hut circle lies 8 metres east-south-east of the second building and has a 2.8 metres diameter interior surrounded by a 1.3 metres wide and 0.6 metres high wall. A gap in the surrounding wall which faces south west, is probably an original doorway; it is lined on the western side, and is partly blocked by a fallen orthostat.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey

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