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Summary

Hut circle in settlement east of Cholwich Town Clay Works. One of a group of hut circles in the settlement

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56SE110
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/105

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1965, RAF/58/7109, RAF/58/7109 F42 0130-0131 22-NOV-1965 (Aerial Photograph). SDV351186.

A circular hollow is visible.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX56SE110, SX56SE110 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV146017.

Five hut circles are situated on a south-west facing slope within a modern enclosure, three short lengths of prehistoric walling also survive possibly the remains of prehistoric enclosures. The average diameter of the huts is 5.3 meters and the average wall thickness is 1.2 meters. They are mostly in poor condition; three of them are probably Type Two huts, the other two cannot be determined. Three of the huts have recognisable entrances on the south or south-west. No clearance has been carried out in the vicinity.
‘Two huts with various enclosure walls’ (T. Greeves cited by Ordnance Survey).

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Not recorded.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 175-6, Map 52, Figure 52.1 (Monograph). SDV137656.

One of a row of four hut circles in Settlement 'B' at 'Parkland enclosures'.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 1999-2017, Pan Government Agreement Aerial Photographs, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery SX5962 03-MAY-2007 (Aerial Photograph). SDV363087.

A circular stone defined hollow is visible.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2019-2020, The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey. Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (AI&M, formerly NMP) (Interpretation). SDV362982.

A hut circle of probable Bronze Age to Iron Age date is visible on aerial photographs of 1965 and digital images derived from aerial photographs of 2007 as a roughly oval hollow or platform approximately 6m across cut into the south-west facing slope. The hollow is defined on the south-west and south-east sides by fragmentary stone-built banks. A second similar hut circle is visible immediately to the north-west.
The hut circles are located within a wider, shallow terrace cut into the south-west facing slope (see MDV79188).

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

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8098 - The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping (formerly NMP) Survey, Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (Ref: ACD2040)

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