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Summary

Hut circle lying within a small enclosure in the reave system on Halshanger Common. Diameter 8.3 metres, double orthostat wall 1.8 metres wide, 1.3 metres high. Double orthostatic except around the doorway where it is coursed. The coursed walling may represent an historic rebuilding of the structure.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019603: Coaxial fields, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Halshanger and Horridge Commons, forming part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field system
• SHINE: Earthworks and stone walls of a Bronze Age parallel reave system on Mountsland, Halshanger and Horridge Commons, comprising the remains of a field system, hut circle settlements, enclosures and cairns, and surface remains of 19th century Hemsworthy Mine

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77SW/55/9
• Old SAM Ref: 28774
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., 152297 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Site visit 1st April 1999. Stone hut circle within coaxial fields on Halsanger Common. Diameter 8.3 metres, double orthostat wall 1.8 metres wide, 1.3 metres high. Double orthostatic except around the doorway where it is coursed. The coursed walling may represent an historic rebuilding of the structure. The door faces 167 degrees, is 1.5 metres wide and is lined on both sides. Grass and bracken. May tree just south of centre and another in the southern wall just east of the door. Some animal poaching just inside the entrance.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume One - The East, 40, Fig. 5.1, Map 5 (Monograph). SDV299725.

Butler's hut circle number 9, measuring 5.8 metres in diameter and lies within an enclosure with an entrance next to the hut.

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

Hut circle is visible on the aerial photography.

Newman, P., 2013, An Archaeological Assessment of Halshanger and Horridge Commons, Dartmoor, Devon, Table 1 (Report - Assessment). SDV356396.

condition stable. Short grassland and bracken.

Newman, P., 2013, Halshanger Sites Visited and Confirmed (Report - Survey). SDV351113.

Site surveyed and grid reference confirmed.

Newman, P., 2015, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, 57 (Report - Survey). SDV359145.

Hut circle in reave system on Halshanger Common
A stone hut circle located within a neighbourhood group of 16 dispersed huts on Halsanger Common, and the western corner of Rippon Tor enclosure, spread over about 7ha amidst the parallel reaves. Some are attached to reaves, though others are free standing. Condition is stable. SX74713 74761

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, RT29 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(04/08/2019) Condition assessed as bed. Bracken growth covers 100% of the feature. Also some gorse growth. Surrounding area bracken-covered. Feature not photographed due to vegetation cover.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6433 - Assessment of Halsanger Common, Horridge Common and Rippon Tor
• EDV6836 - Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape survey

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