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Summary

Large hut circle in parallel reave system on Horridge Common, near a number of other huts. This hut is attached to a reave and appears to have a passageway approaching it from the south-western side. Diameter 7.9 metres, single orthostat wall 2.0 metres wide, 1.1 metres high. 175 degree facing gap denoted on the west by a fallen orthostat represents a doorway. Butted by short length of field wall leading from the east. Covered in bracken, grass and gorse.

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

• National Monuments Record: 445196
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77SE/6/5
• Old SAM Ref: 28774
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume One - The East, 47-48; figure 6.1, Map 6 (Monograph). SDV299725.

Butler’s hut circle 9 measures 8.2 metres in diameter and is one of the largest in the settlement. It is approached by a long curved passageway from the south-west across the ends of two fields. The width narrows from 5.0 metres to 3.5 metres near the hut, which it does not quite meet, though this may be due to later removal of the missing stones.
The hut entrance is not, however, into the passageway but downhill, where one of the jamb stones lies prone. The far end is securely blocked by a reave, whilst the lowest course of another continues across the passageway about half-way along without a break. Tumbled stones at its base show that it once stood higher and did not need to be removed in order to gain access to the hut.

Gerrard, S., 1999, Survey on Halshanger Common, MPP 152313 (Report - Survey). SDV290796.

Stone hut circle within coaxial fields on Horridge Common. Diameter 7.9 metres, single orthostat wall 2.0 metres wide, 1.1 metres high. 175 degree facing gap denoted on the west by a fallen orthostat represents a doorway. Butted by short length of field wall leading from the east. Covered in bracken, grass and gorse.

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

Hut circle depicted on the modern mapping.

Newman, P., 2015, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, 58 (Report - Survey). SDV359145.

Hut circle in reave system on Horridge Common. One of a neighbourhood group of seven huts located within the reave system on Horridge Common. Condition is stable. SX75671 74524.

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

(April 2019 visit) Condition assessed as very bad; primary damage agent is vegetation (gorse).

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Image taken on April 2019 visit.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6836 - Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape survey

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