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Summary

Small hut. This very disturbed feature is levelled into the slope and measures 3.5 metres north to south by 3.8 metres internally with walls 1.0 metres wide and 0.3 metres high. There is no obvious entrance. It adjoins a contemporary field boundary, part of the Dartmeet parallel reave system

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020487: Part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system and other archaeological remains on Holne Moor west and north west of Venford Reservoir

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE44
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442983

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, Map 60 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Depicted by Butler.

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 1997, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (Report - Survey). SDV173671.

(18/04/1996) SX 67767169 and SX 67727169. Two hut circles lie on the moderate NW facing slope above the right bank of the Aller Brook. A second smaller hut lies 70 metres downslope of MDV6398 at SX 6772 7169. This very disturbed feature is levelled into the slope and measures 3.5 metres north to south by 3.8 metres internally with walls 1.0 metres wide and 0.3 metres high. There is no obvious entrance. It adjoins a contemporary field boundary, part of the Dartmeet parallel reave system (SX 67 SE 95).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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