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Summary

Hut circle in southern section of prehistoric enclosure on the west side of the track in the Erme Valley below Stalldown

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012740: Agglomerated enclosure on the west side of the Erme Valley below Stalldown

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/89
• Old SAM County Ref: 817
• Old SAM Ref: 10515

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Southern hut circle shown on 19th century map.

Brooking-Rowe, J., 1894, 6th Report of the Committee on Devonshire Records, 86 (Article in Serial). SDV157021.

Baring Gould, S., 1900, A Book of Dartmoor, 48 (Monograph). SDV277387.

Royal Air Force, 1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2494, 3049-51 (Aerial Photograph). SDV147533.

National Monuments Record, 1976, NMR SX6361, 2-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDV138823.

Photograph taken on 22nd April 1976.

National Monument Record, 1976, SX6461, 1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV147975.

Photograph taken on 22nd April 1976.

Robinson, R., 1984, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1984 (Un-published). SDV343082.

Site visited on 30th June 1984.

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

Agglomerated enclosure visible, badly damaged by a modern track or road, with five elements containing four hut circles.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 42-43, Map 54, Figure 54.4 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Hut circle shown on the west side of multiple Enclosure 'B' with an internal division.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Hut circle shown on aerial photograph.

Newman, P., 2018, Erme Valley Survey data (GIS and Excel spreadsheet) (Cartographic). SDV361913.

Hut circle shown on survey.

Newman, P., 2018, The Upper Erme Valley, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: An Archaeological Survey, Appendix 1, MDV 4351 (Report - Survey). SDV362921.

The southern hut at SX63976143 was too densely covered by bracken for description or measurement aat time of survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2020, MasterMap 2020 (Cartographic). SDV363413.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2020, National Heritage List for England, 101274 (National Heritage List for England). SDV363414.

Two enclosures. The northern enclosure has a west east wall dividing. One hut circle in each sector.

National Monuments Record, 2020, Pastscape, 442327, SX66SW51 (Website). SDV363416.

The two associated Type 2 hut circles, with
average internal diametrs of 6.5 metres and walls 1.4 metre wide, are set
into the slope and have south east facing entrances. The south
hut is built against, and is contemporary with or later than
the enclosure, whilst the north hut is built on the wall line and
probably predates it.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8082 - Survey of the Upper Erme Valley

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