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Summary

Large hut circle in reave system on the south-east edge of Horridge Common; one of a group of four. This hut is set within a yard or enclosure that it shares with MDV62336, which has a particularly well preserved entranceway. Diameter 7.6 metres, double orthostat wall 1.0 metre wide, 1.2 metres high. A 175 degree facing gap may represent a doorway. Butted by field walls. Large deciduous tree adjacent to inner west face of the hut.

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/6/10
• 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 2 is large, measuring 7.7 metres in diameter and shares a common wall with hut 1 and has a similar yard on its uphill side. The party wall between the two huts is built of a massive slab on edge. Entrance on the south-east side. The yard around this hut is particularly interesting as the entrance to this (on the north-east side), is exceptionally well preserved. The gap is 1.3 metres wide between a pair of slabs set across the wall and paved with two slabs down into the interior.

Gerrard, S., 1999, Survey on Halshanger Common, MPP 152318 (Report - Survey). SDV290796.

Stone hut circle within coaxial fields on Horridge Common. Diameter 7.6 metres, double orthostat wall 1.0 metre wide, 1.2 metres high. A 175 degree facing gap may represent a doorway. Butted by field walls. Covered in grass, bracken and foxglove. Large deciduous tree adjacent to inner west face of the hut.

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. SX75704 74336.

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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