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Summary

Eastern of two hut circles of 3.4 metres diameter on the eastern boundary of the enclosure south of Penn Beacon

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HUT CIRCLE (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2200 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, Devon County Council RAF/CPE/UK/1890 2292-2293 10-DEC-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

A circular hollow is visible as a subtle earthwork.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 177-8, Map 52, Figure 52.3 (Monograph). SDV137656.

'Hut Circle '2' of 3.4 metres diameter is the eastern of two huts in the enclosure at 'Penn Beacon South'. It is built into the eastern boundary wall and it may have been a replacement for one or two earlier buildings alongside, which seem to have been dismantled whilst the pound was still in use.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 1999-2017, Pan Government Agreement Aerial Photographs, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery SX5962 01-JUN-2002 (Aerial Photograph). SDV363087.

A circular spread of stone is visible as an earthwork.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

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 spread of disturbed stone is visible on digital images derived from aerial photographs of 2002 onwards, over a roughly circular area approximately 15m in diameter towards the south-east edge of the surrounding larger D-shaped enclosure recorded as MDV2403.
The stonework might mark the former site of a hut circle of probable Bronze Age date that either abutted or had been incorporated into the south-eastern edge the surrounding enclosure.
It is one of two possible hut circle sites visible within the surrounding enclosure.

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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