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Summary

Large hut circle to the south-east of Kraps Ring enclosed hut circle settlement, Bellever Plantation. One of a pair of huts in close proximity south of the main enclosure.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018509: Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement known as Kraps Ring

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/26/8
• Old SAM County Ref: 455
• Old SAM Ref: 28686

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Turner, J. R., 1976, Ancient Monuments on Forestry Commission Land. Fernworthy and Bellever (Report - non-specific). SDV351823.

Bellever Plantation Lakehead (7.A) SX64387808
Hut circle measuring 7.0 metres in diameter, on a platform site cut into a north-facing slope, very ruined. Largest stone, 1.1 by 0.25 metres (thick) by 0.7 metres above the ground. Not investigated.
Recommendations of the 1976/7 committee: (April 1976) In the broad central clearing zone. One tree in west side of wall.
1955 Spooner/Dixon report (Lakehead-Bellever-Laughter site number 17).

Dartmoor National Park Authority + Forestry Commission + Dartmoor Preservation Association, 1976, Conservation of Ancient Monuments. The Report of a Working Party, 4 (Report - non-specific). SDV248248.

Bellever Plantation Lakehead 7.A (see 1976 Field Report for full details).

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 144261, (09/07/1997) (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Stone hut circle forming part of a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement known as Kraps Ring. Diameter 8.0 metres, double and single orthostat wall 1.2 metres wide, 0.6 metres high. Internal area 50.24 metres. Not enclosed. A 10 degree facing gap with thickening of either side may be a door. Deciduous trees on western wall, elsewhere grass and bilberry.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 43-44, figure 27.6 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Newman , P., 1993, RCHME Field Investigation at Lakehead Hill (Report - Survey). SDV262456.

SX 64387806. Approximately 40 metres south-south-west of the enclosure, a large hut with internal diameter of 7.3 metres, consisting of a ring of large, mostly displaced boulders, set into a grassy bank of up to 2 metres wide by 0.4 metres high. The maximum height of the stones is 0.5 metres. A small tree is growing within the western section of the hut wall.

Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.

Hut circle is depicted on modern map.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7388 - Archaeological condition survey in Bellever Woods
• EDV7406 - Archaeological condition survey in Bellever Woods
• EDV7431 - Woodland Survey (1989-90) at Bellever, Soussons and other woodland parcels

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