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Summary

Hut circle of 8 metres diameter with walls 1.1. metres wide by 1.3 metres high in the middle of a rectangular field within Kes Tor reave system

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016691: Coaxial field system and prehistoric settlements at Kestor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NE129
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 889873
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/72/4
• Old SAM Ref: 28714

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Hut circle shown on 19th century map.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 149111, 1/4/1997 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Stone hut circle forming part of a prehistoric settlement within the Kestor coaxial field system. Hut measures 8 metres in diameter. Double and single orthostat wall 1.1 metres wide, 1.3 metres high. Internal area 50.24 metres. Inner face consists of nice substantial edge set orthostats. Some animal poaching. Three substantial gaps in the wall, but none of them could be identified with the original entrance.

Probert, S. A. J., 1991, Castor Parallel System (Plan - measured). SDV229808.

Depicted on plan.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 170-174, Map 36, Figure 36.1 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle '2' of 8.2 metres diameter within a rectangular field on the east side of the road at 'Kes Tor settlement'. Little more than the inner face is in place. Excavated in 1951-1952.

Probert, S. A. J., 1991, Shovel Down Survey (Report - Survey). SDV359365.

Centred SX 66528694. Four well-defined hut circles and one possible hut platform. They lie on the moderate north-west facing slope of Chagford Common 150 metres east-north-east of Round Pound. The huts are all terraced into the slope and are constructed from massive upright slabs. They vary in internal diameter from 6.1 metres to 9.2 metres and there are no obvious entrances. Huts 1 and 2 and the platform, 5, have been robbed.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.

Hut shown on the modern mapping.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1016691 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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