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Summary

Diameter measures 2.5 metres. Rubble wall 1.9 metres wide, 0.5 metres high. A 195 degree facing gap may represent a doorway. A length of walling leading from this doorway measures 2.8 metres long, 0.9 metres wide and 0.3 metres high and is formed by five set stones. Heather and grass cover noted in 2002 survey visit.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1021059: Two stone hut circles and a length of associated walling 620m south east of Cuckoo Rock, forming an outlying part of a prehistoric settlement

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE308
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1386458
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/658
• Old SAM Ref: 34472

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 157354, 27/3/2002 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Southern of two stone hut circles 530 metres south-east of Cuckoo Rock.
(SX 5894 6845) Diameter measures 2.5 metres. Rubble wall 1.9 metres wide, 0.5 metres high. A 195 degree facing gap may represent a doorway. A length of walling leading from this doorway measures 2.8 metres long, 0.9 metres wide and 0.3 metrse high and is formed by five set stones. Heather and grass cover noted.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 68-70, Map 47.6 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Newman, P., 2007, Cramber Tor Training Area Monument Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV348210.

(Visited 01/08/2006) A curvilinear section of stony bank is all that remains of a probable enclosure with two associated hut circles, which has been truncated by medieval streamworks.

Probert, S., 2008, Follow-Up Works to Cramber Tor Archaeological Baseline Condition Survey, Dartmoor Training Area (Report - Survey). SDV351304.

Greeves, T., 2012, Cramber Tor Training Area. Monument Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV350251.

Probert, S. A. J., 2017, A Condition Survey of the Archaeological Sites of the Cramber Tor Training Area, Devon, 2017 (Report - Survey). SDV360392.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, WLK-DT30 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited 07/2019. Covered in grass with heather on the stonework. Bracken encroaching on the west, north and east sides. Photo taken

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, WLK-DT30 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Visited 07/2019 Photo taken looking north east to show the bracken encroachment

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7382 - Condition Survey of the Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV6034 - Monument Condition Survey in Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV6152 - Follow-up Works to Threatened Sites in the Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV6153 - Monument Baseline Condition Survey in the Cramber Tor Training Area

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