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Summary

The remains of a hut circle, set on a gentle S facing slope of rough grassland. Just N of an area of tin streamworkings which run along the Colly Brook. It measures 9m E-W by 6.5m inside a crude turf-covered stone wall which is 0.5m maximum height and varies in width from 1.8m to 2.5m.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork and walling remains of a hut circle and cairn to the north of Colly Brook

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57NW122
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 918914
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NW/90

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit, I. S. Sainsbury (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(05/02/1988) SX 5469 7814 The remains of a hut circle, set on a gentle S facing slope of rough grassland. Just N of an area of tin streamworkings which run along the Colly Brook. It measures 9m E-W by 6.5m inside a crude turf-covered stone wall which is 0.5m maximum height and varies in width from 1.8m to 2.5m.
In the W, and partly in the SE, a few earthfast stones set on edge, but now much collapsed and misaligned, may be the remains of an inner face, and similar stones in the S suggest fragments of outer face.
A break in the wall in the SSW 2.6m wide is most probably the entrance. To the immediate W of this break is an enigmatic flattish structure of stones about 4m NW-SE by 3m transversely and 0.4m high. Earthfast stones around its NE side appear to form a kerb which seems to cut into the enclosure. It may be a collapsed wall or clearance dumped on the wall displacing its inner face.

Newman, P., 2003, The Langstone Moor Stone Circle, Peter Tavy, Devon and its Prehistoric Environs, fig 2 (Report - Survey). SDV255420.

(01/10/2003) As described in 1988. Resurveyed using GPS (September 2003). Hut circle shown on the English Heritage survey of 2003 to the north-east of a cairn to the north of 'Colly Brook'.

Newman, P., 2004, Merrivale Range Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV346874.

(10/08/2004) Condition is stable.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Circular feature visible on aerial photograph.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7275 - Survey of the Langstone Moor stone circle and other prehistoric monuments nearby
• EDV7441 - Condition survey of the archaeological sites of Merrivale Training Area
• EDV7570 - Condition survey of Merrivale Range training area
• EDV8667 - Survey of tinworks along the Colly Brook
• EDV8713 - Merrivale Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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