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Summary

Hut Circle '23' in the northern part of the northern enclosure at 'Riders Rings' (Butler)

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1002502: Riders Rings (The Rings)

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SE2
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/73/2
• Pastscape: 441743

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

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

'Hut Circles' shown at 'The Rings' on 19th century map.

Robinson, 1978, Rider's Rings, Sketch Plan (Worksheet). SDV176574.

Site visited in May 1978. Some of the hut circles against the pound are difficult to distinguish from small courts. Fourteen hut circles recognised in the southern enclosure, and ten in the northern, partly overgrown with bracken and bilberry. Entrances recognised on some. Not all hut platforms are very clear, and not all those marked on plan in Fox could be recognised. Full descriptions and measurements of individual hut circles on worksheet.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 144-5, Map 57, Figure 57.14 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Hut Circle '23' in the northern part of the northern enclosure at 'Rider's Rings' with a gap to the south.

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

Hut circle visible on aerial photograph.

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

Hut circle not on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2020, National Heritage List for England, 1002502 (National Heritage List for England). SDV363414.

There are 15 free-standing huts in the centre of the enclosure as well as many others attached to the back of the north-west wall. They measure 5.5 - 7 metres in internal diameter.

National Monuments Record, 2020, Pastscape, 441743, SX66SE2 (Website). SDV363416.

Site visited on 4th May 1950. The average diameter of the hut circles is 7 metres, the walling being composed of turf and heather covered stones with an average height of 0.3 metres. Four hut circles (SX67816421, SX67826434, SX67936440 and SX67976447) have disappeared.
Field Investigation on 18th July 1977. Fifteen huts in the southern enclosure, eight in the north. They are genearlly in poor condition, some of them no more than terraces enclosed by a discontinuous ring of stones. Average internal diameter 5.3 metres. The largest is 7.0 metres, the smallest 2.5 metres. Type 1 huts.

Sources / Further Reading

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