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Summary

One of a group of over 20 hut circles within prehistoric settlement south of Leeden Tor

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1008671: An unenclosed stone hut circle settlement, an irregular aggregate field system, a length of reave and an enclosure on the south east slope of Leeden Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SE92
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/7/11
• Old SAM Ref: 22265
• Pastscape: 440288

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. (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Visited in 1992. Hut circle shown on 1992 plan of the site but no dimensions appear to have been recorded.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 36-37, Map 45, Figure 45.1 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Hut circle shown to the south-west of enclosure within Settlement 'C' at Leeden Tor South.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

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

One photograph of the hut taken looking south-east to north-west.

Derry, C., 2019, Hut circle at SX56405 71063 (Worksheet). SDV363078.

(Visited 10/04/2019) Hut circle recorded at SX56405 71063. Double wall of 0.8 metres wide and 0.4 metres high; internal measurement of hut 3.2 metres. Entrance is to the south which is 2.5 metres away from the outside of an enclosure bank. Gorse noted on the wall, with grass and slight gorse cover internally, otherwise condition is good. Not as obvious as the other huts in the area.

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

Depicted on the modern mapping.

National Monuments Record, 2020, Pastscape, 440288, SX57SE92 (Website). SDV363416.

Field Investigation on 4th August 1980. Centred at SX 56437103 is a settlement of twenty-five huts covering 3.1 hectares of a south and east hillslope at about 361 metres O.D. The area
is broken up by erosion runnels and quantities of surface clitter.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1008671 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

This monument includes an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement comprising 31 stone hut circles in an irregular aggregate field system.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8351 - Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project

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