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Summary

Two hut circles in eastern enclosures at settlement on Giant's Hil. Two adjoining huts in the south-eastern part of the enclosure joined to the enclosure wall by a short line of walling to the east. They are 9.0 metres in diameter with walls 0.6 metres high

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019081: Enclosed stone hut circle settlement and three round cairns on Giant's Hill

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 NE 94
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/542/1
• Old SAM Ref: 24190
• Pastscape: 438767

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 140362, 02/06/1995 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(SX 5957 6678) Two of five hut circles within this enclosure; the others are at SX 5956 6682SX 5956 6682 and SX 5956 6678.
They lie within an enclosure forming part of an agglomeration including at least two distinct enclosed areas. Four of huts are conjoined, one is of simple plan, all are terraced into the hillslope and each is of rubble bank walling type.
The remaining conjoined huts lie within the eastern part of the enclosure. The northern of these two structures survives as a 2m diameter internal area surrounded by a 1.4m wide and 0.4m high bank. The second hut is attached to the south wall of the first, its interior is 2.4m in diameter and the surrounding wall is 2m wide and 0.5m high. A rubble boundary bank leads east-south-east from this hut for 7m to the enclosure boundary wall.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 130, Map 49, Figure 49.14 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Two adjoining hut circles in the south-east of northern enclosure of the eastern enclosures at Giant's Hill settlement.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 285/102.997b-e (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

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

(19/03/2002) SX 5958 6678. Measuring 9.0 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres high this stony feature possesses two adjacent sub-circular hollows approximately 2.5 metres in diameter.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Oval feature shown on survey.

Environment Agency WMS, 2019, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution), 2019 (Cartographic). SDV362956.

Visible on Lidar data.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

One hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1019081 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Within scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey

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