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Summary

Northern of two hut circles with a short length of contemporary walling at the foot of a clitter slope above the right bank of Spanish Lake of 3.5m north-south by 3.0 metres with walls 1.1 metres wide and 0.5 metres high with an entrance in the west side.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1013058: Two stone hut circles north of Spanish Lake, Lee Moor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 SE 7
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/16
• Old SAM County Ref: 580
• Old SAM Ref: 10695
• Pastscape: 439124

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Early Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 2200 BC to 301 BC (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX56SE7 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV138919.

(01/06/1950) Two hut circles on moorland. Walls consist of small stones covered with turf. Hut A diameter 4.5m has an entrance to the south-west. Hut B diameter 5.0m has no obvious entrance.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX56SE7 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV138920.

(24/08/1977) SX 58636434: Two hut circles lie on a gentle, well drained, west facing slope at 355m. above OD. Their average internal diameter is 3.8m; one is terraced and has type 2, orthostatic walling, 0.7m wide, in very poor condition; the other is not terraced and has fragmentary walling about 0.8m wide. There is a short, arc of walling, 1.0m wide leading from one of the hut circles, possibly the remains of an enclosure wall. (Type 2 huts: SX 56 NE 19).
1:10 000 Survey on PFD.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 162-3, Map 51, Figure 51.6 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Northern of two hut circles at Settlement 'A' at 'Upper Spanish Lake'

Probert, S. A. J., 2002, Field Investigator's Comments (Report - Survey). SDV147446.

(23/04/2002) Centred SX 5863 6435. Two hut circles and a short length of contemporary walling lie at the foot of a clitter slope above the right bank of Spanish Lake.
SX 5862 6435. Measuring 3.5m north-south by 3.0m this hut has walls 1.1m wide and 0.5m high with an entrance in the west side.
Both huts are terraced into the gently sloping hillside to provide level interiors.

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

Hut circle shown on survey.

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

Visible on the aerial photography.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UP-HT7 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(16/03/2020) Condition assessed as very good; no damage agents currently affecting this feature.

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

Image taken March 2020 site visit.

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

Northern of two 'Hut Circles' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1013058 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

These two hut circles lie on a west-facing slope at the western end of Lee Moor, north of Spanish Lake. They are built of earth and stone and are 5 metres and 4.5 metres in diameter with walls 1 metre in thickness and 0.5 metres in height and entrances in the west and north-west respectively.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

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

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