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Summary

Foundations of a rectangular building of 6.0 metres by 3.0 metres with walls 1.4 metres wide by 0.6 metres high. The building lies within the Hemstone North Bronze Age hut circle settlement and may have originally been a hut circle

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1017985: Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Tom's Hill, 870m north west of Sandeman Bridge

Other References/Statuses

• MPP Archaeological Item Dataset: 144136
• National Monuments Record: SX68SW61
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 444010
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SW/4
• Old SAM Ref: 28673

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BUILDING (Constructed, Unknown date)
• (Former Type) HUT CIRCLE? (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

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

Fernworthy Plantation. Toms Hill 5E. Rectangular building, 8.2 metres by 3.6 metres with very low walls. Not investigated. Has been planted over.
February 1976. 8 posts ringing clearance zone. All agreements carried out.
Not included in 1955 Spooner and Dixon report.

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

All agreements carried out. Vegetation good.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 144136 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(28/04/1997) Hut circle at SX64948406 forming part of unenclosed settlement. Measures 6.0 metres by 3.0 metres. Rubble bank wall 1.4 metres wide and 0.6 metres high. Internal area 18 square metres. An oval hut orientated east-north-east to west-south-west.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 157, Map 35, Site 6 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle at 'Fernwirthy West' settlement.

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

Visited on 2nd August 1995. Building at SX 64948406 which may be a distrurbed hut circle The remains of a rectangular structure are terraced into the gently sloping south-east facing hillside amongst a cluster of hut circles some 450 metres west of the Fernworthy stone circle. The former building measures 8 metres east to west by 3.1 metres internally, bounded by a combination of stony scarps and a low curving rubble bank on the east side. There is no obvious entrance though a slight gap exists in the west end. The function of this feature is unclear though it has been overplanted and may be a severely damaged hut circle. It is not depicted on a late 19th or early 20th century maps.

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

Fernworthy. Toms Hill 1-4B, 6B. Site visit 27th September 1996. Five hut circles within a large clearing on north side of track. Sites well marked but the archaeological remains are difficult to identifty as they are covered by long grass. Gorse is also widespread throughout the clearance area.

English Heritage, 2005, Survey Information (miscellaneous date) (Report - Survey). SDV345855.

Rectangular structure shown on survey.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour aerial photography for Dartmoor (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Rectangular structure visible.

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

Rectangular structure visible.

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

Newman, P., 2013, The Archaeology of Fernworthy Forest, Dartmoor, Devon, 36, Fig. 31 (Report - Survey). SDV351784.

Foundations of a rectangular structure.

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

Rectangular building marked but at a different orientation to the structure visible on LiDAR and aerial photos.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1017985 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

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

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