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Summary

Hut circle; one of a group of four huts on the south-eastern edge of Horridge Common. Set within a yard, this hut also have a passageway approaching the yard; a feature of a number of the huts in this settlement. Diameter 7.4 metres , single orthostat and rubble wall 2.4 metres wide, 0.8 metres high. A 165 degree facing gap may represent a doorway. Butted by a short length of field wall on the west side.

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: SX77SE/6/8
• 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, 46; figure 6.1, Map 6 (Monograph). SDV299725.

Butler’s hut circle 1 measures 7.6 metres in diameter and is still in good condition. There is one jamb stone still standing at the entrance to the hut and the other has fallen across the gap. Steps must have been necessary to enter the house from the outside. A passageway ends at the yard surrounding this hut; one of a number of passageways approaching huts in this settlement, which is most interesting and they are particularly well preserved here. Most of the passageways are blocked at both ends but this one has a V-shaped gap which may have allowed access.

Gerrard, S., 1999, Survey on Halshanger Common, MPP 152316 (Report - Survey). SDV290796.

Stone hut circle within coaxial fields on Horridge Common. Diameter 7.4 metres , single orthostat and rubble wall 2.4 metres wide, 0.8 metres high. A 165 degree facing gap may represent a doorway. Butted by a short length of field wall on the west side. Covered with grass, bracken, nettles and foxgloves.

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 four hut circles within an enclosed neighbourhood cluster associated within the southern section of the reave system on Horridge Common. Condition is stable but affected by bracken. SX75685 74342.

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

(April 2019 visit) Condition assessed as bad; primary damage agent is vegetation (bracken, with some tree growth).

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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