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Summary

One of a row of three Bronze Age hut circles east of the Assycombe Brook. Hut circle of 5.5 metres diameter with walls 1.7 metres wide by 0.7 metres high with an entrance to the south. All three hut circles have suffered disturbance by forestry activity and appear to have been robbed of stone.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1017981: Stone alignment, hut circle settlement, medieval long house and post-medieval farmstead at Assycombe

Other References/Statuses

• MPP Archaeological Item Dataset: 144155
• National Monuments Record: SX68SE6
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443784
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/21
• Old SAM Ref: 28655
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX68SE6

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 Circles' shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950-1978, SX68SE6 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV276166.

Turner, J. R., 1976, Ancient Monuments on Forestry Commission Land. Fernworthy and Bellever (Report - non-specific). SDV351823.

Fernworthy Plantation. Assacombe 11C. SX 6591 8245. Hut circle. 5.6 metres diameter. Very ruined. Low stone wall 1.1 metres thick. Not investigated. Has been planted over.
February 1976. One tree inside, others in or near stone wall. Clearance zone ringed by 8 posts. Trees standing within. Trees outside post ring are within falling distance of hut.
Included in 1955 Spooner and Dixon report (A) Region South of the Teign (Assacombe and Lowton) Site No. 15.

Turner, J., 1978, Report of Work Carried Out by the Forestry Commission since January 1976 (Report - non-specific). SDV351816.

Trees removed.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., 144155 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Site visit 29th April 1997. Hut circle forming part of settlement at Assycombe. Diameter 5.5 metres. Wall 1.7 metres wide, 0.7 metres high. Internal area 23.74 square metres. Lies within forest clearing.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 157, Map 35, Site 5 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle at 'Assycombe Brook settlement'.

Smith, N., 1992, Condition Survey of Identified Archaeology with Woodland Areas 1992 (Un-published). SDV351819.

Fernworthy. Assacombe 11C. Site visit 27th May 1992. Hut circle immediately east and adjacent to track. In a clearing. Condition stable. Site marked. Young trees nearby but none immediately next to or within posted area. Suggested that present vegetation management regime be maintained. Photo.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1993-1998, Dartmoor Royal Forest Project, S. Probert (Report - Survey). SDV346608.

(03/06/1995) The huts lie on the steep W facing slope above the right bank of the Assycombe Brook within Fernworthy Forest. All have suffered disturbance by forestry activity. They are well-built from upright slabs and boulders and are terraced into the hillside. Entrances are in the S quadrant.

Dartmoor National Park Authority, 1996, Condition Survey of Identified Archaeology within Woodland Areas 1996 (Un-published). SDV351820.

Fernworthy. Assycombe Group 11C. Site visit 27th September 1996. Site marked by 1 post.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Hut circle shown on survey.

Fugro-BKS, 2013, Fernworthy Forest LiDAR survey (Cartographic). SDV351778.

Hut circle visible.

Newman, P., 2013, Fernworthy Forest Sites Survey (Un-published). SDV351708.

Newman, P., 2013, The Archaeology of Fernworthy Forest, Dartmoor, Devon, 23, Fig. 19 (Report - Survey). SDV351784.

[One of] a group of three huts located 130 metres south of the Assacombe stone row on a moderate western slope. This hut circle sits in a natural hollow that cuts into the slope providing a level floor surface. The walls have been robbed of leaving an earth and stone rign some 5.7-6.4 metres diameter.

Ordnance Survey, 2014, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV355681.

'Hut Circle' marked.

English Heritage, 2014, National Heritage List for England, 1017981 (National Heritage List for England). SDV355683.

[Part of] stone alignment, hut circle settlement, medieval long house and post-medieval farmstead at Assycombe.

National Monument Record, 2014, Pastscape, 443784 (Website). SDV355682.

[One of] three Bronze Age hut circles on the right bank of the Assycombe Brook. All have suffered disturbance by forestry activity. They are well-built from upright slabs and boulders and are terraced into the hillside. Entrances are in the southern quadrant. NMR No. SX68SE6. Record last updated: N/A.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6203 - Archaeological Survey of Fernworthy Forest
• EDV6216 - Condition Surveys of Ancient Monuments on Forestry Commission Land
• EDV7389 - Fernworthy Forest condition survey 1996
• EDV7410 - Fernworthy Forest condition survey 1992
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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