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Summary

A re-used hut around 8.5m in original diameter with a smaller (6.5m diameter) hut occupying the north side.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019084: Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement and post-medieval warren structures on the western slope of Little and Great Trowlesworthy Tors
• SHINE: Earthworks and stone walls of partially enclosed Bronze Age hut circle settlements and post-medieval warren structures on the western slope of Little and Great Trowlesworthy Tors

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 SE 13
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/233/1
• Old SAM Ref: 24233
• Pastscape: 439142

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Hut circle shown on 19th century map in the south of the enclosure.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

Hut circle shown on early 20th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, Enclosure and Hut Circles, SX56SE 13 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV165569.

Hut Circle (D) at SX57516441 with a diameter of 8 metres and wall in a dilapidated condition.

Worth, R. H., 1967, Worth's Dartmoor, 138-9, Figure 34 (Monograph). SDV337618.

Hut circle in shown on southern boundary of enclosure.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., 140729 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

One of six hut circles within enclosure. Hut (f) at SX57516440. Simple plan and double orthostat walling type. 8.4 metres diameter, defined by a 1.7 metre wide wall standing up to 0.8 metres high. The south wall of this building was partly refurbished during the Post-Medieval period when it was incorporated into a vermin trap. This is site Number 102 349g in the National Trust Upper Plym inventory.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 156, Map 51, Figure 51.1 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Hut circle shown in the south of Prehistoric Enclosure D just north of a vermin trap.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 77, 102 349g (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

Large sub-circular structure 12.2 by 11.5 metres externally with walls 0.7 metres high. The turf banks have isolated outer facing slabs in the north-west and north-east sectors. The inner facing is best preserved in the north-east secotor. Refurbishment may have been undertaken during construction of a vermin trap. An arc of six large orthostats 1 metre outside the north and east sectors may represent an earlier structure.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

(20/05/2002) A sub-circular enclosure and eight hut circles lie on the moderate west-facing slope of Little Trowlesworthy Tor.
SX 5751 6442. A second re-used hut around 8.5m in original diameter with a smaller (6.5m diameter) hut occupying the north side.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Hut circle visible on aerial photograph

Ordnance Survey, 2019, MasterMap 2019 (Cartographic). SDV362729.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7369 - Survey of Granite Loading Bays at Trowlesworthy, Devon
• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey

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