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Summary

Prehistoric hut circle to the east of Old Bottle Hill Leat on Crownhill Down within a Prehistoric field system

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: 439306
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/143/3
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX56SE70

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1970 - 1978, SX56SE70 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV343431.

Hut circle 24 feet (7.3 metres) diameter.

Edwards, C., 1979, An archaeological survey of an area surrounding Hemerdon Ball (Report - Survey). SDV337241.

Site visited on 26th June 1979. A prehistoric hut circle stands between Bottle Hill Leat to the west and the lower wall of the Prehistoric field system to the east. A horizontal platform has clearly been cut into the hillside to form the floor. Walls are well defined by a continuous circle of earth and stone. Vegetation cover of fern. Diameter 7 metres, with walls 1 metre wide and 0.2 metres high.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1980, Crownhill Down (Personal Comment). SDV343436.

Visited on 2nd October 1980. Hut A) a circular hut platform 5.5 metres in diameter cut 0.4 metres deep into the hillslope on the east side and built up correspondingly on the west. There are three stones on the perimeter. (The hut type is uncertain).

Gilbertson, D. + Collis, J., 1982, Mapping Three Millennia of Settlement and Land Use on Crownhill Down, South West Dartmoor (Article in Serial). SDV362901.

Hut circle in Field System 2.

Gilbertson, D. + Collis, J., 1985, Linear Banks on Crownhill Down, Dartmoor (Article in Serial). SDV337244.

Hut circle in Field System 2.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, SX56SE (Cartographic). SDV336987.

Not recorded on 1985 interpretation.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 194-6, Map 52, Figure 52.16 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Hut circle shown on the north side of a small elongated oval enclosure on the east side of 'Old Bottle Hill Leat'.

National Monuments Record, 2002, 439306 (National Monuments Record Database). SDV343432.

Hut A) a hut circle levelled into the slope.
Hut A) a circular platform 5.5 metres diameter cut 0.4 metres into the hillslope on the east side and built up on the west. Ther are three stones on the perimeter. (The hut type is uncertain).
Hut A) was in dense gorse vegetation and not located in 2002.

Fletcher, M., 2002, The Archaeological Landscape of Crownhill Down and Ridding Down: Survey Report, 4 (Report - Survey). SDV343412.

Other details: Figure 3 and Crownhill Down Survey.

Cartographic Engineering, 2006, Dartmoor 2006 1:1250 Aerial Photography (digital) (Aerial Photograph). SDV345590.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4559 - Archaeological Landscape of Crownhill Down and Riddding Down

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