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Summary

Western of a pair of hut circles to the south-west of Yellowmeade Farm

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020157: Two stone hut circles and a length of walling 240m south west of Yellowmeade Farm

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SE18
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 440074
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/133
• Old SAM Ref: 28777

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX57SE18 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV249919.

(18/08/1950) A solitary hut circle of double walled type. Diameter 7.0 metres, width of wall 1.75 metres, height 0.3 metres. It has been pillaged and some stones have been tumbled into the interior. Most of the small stones forming the interior of the walls have become turf covered and only the larger external stones stand out clearly. The entrance is towards the south-south-west.

Royal Air Force, 1964, F63/58/6399, 42-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDV229824.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1980, SX57SE18 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV240816.

(07/02/1980) There are three hut circles and a fragment of enclosure walling in an area of rough pasture which has been partly stripped of stone for the construction of the Yellowmead newtakes. At SX 56517404 is a double-walled hut of Type 2 with walling 0.3 metre high and 1.8 metres wide; there is a poorly defined entrance gap in the south-west. The internal diameter is 6.4 metres.

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

Not visible on 1964 aerial photographs.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152374 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Site visited on 11th June 1999. At SX56517404. The western of two stone hut circles 240 metres south-west of Yellowmeade Farm. Diameter 6.0 metres. Double orthostat wall 1.5 metres wide, 0.55 metres high. A 215 degree facing gap may represent a doorway. A 2.7 metres diameter scatter of stones within the north-east part of the hut may represent the remnants of a collapsed much later structure or possibly a cairn. Low grass cover.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 17, Map 44 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Badly damaged hut of 6.5 metres to the south of settlement at Yellowmeade.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Visible on aerial pphotograph.

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

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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