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Summary

Roughly circular in shape, measuring 3.0 metres in diameter. The walls, built of granite moorstones, survive up to two courses high in places, and measure 0.5 metres wide and 0.5 metres high (maximum). The interior is terraced into the hillside and a possible entrance is situated in the western side.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NW250
• National Monuments Record: SX67NW255
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1409042
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 966153
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/108

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Greeves, T. A. P., 1976, Notes on hut circles at Foxholes (Worksheet). SDV235487.

(20/04/1976) SX 60557855 There are about six (possibly more) prehistoric hut circles among Foxholes clitter south-south-west of Crow Tor.

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

Not visible on Royal Air Force 1951 aerial photograph.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1993-1998, Dartmoor Royal Forest Project, H. Riley (Report - Survey). SDV346608.

(23/09/1994) A hut circle lies on the edge of a clitter field to the south-west of Crow Tor at the foot of a west-facing slope at SX 60550 78550. It is roughly circular in shape and measures 3.0 metres in diameter. The walls, built of granite moorstones, survive up to two courses high in places, and measure 0.5 metres wide and 0.5 metres high (maximum). The interior is terraced into the hillside and a possible entrance is situated in the western side.

Gerrard, S., 1993-2010, Monument Protection Programme Alternative Action Report (Report - non-specific). SDV145710.

(19/06/1998) There are no traces of any huts at the grid reference given by Greeves. There is however a single hut at SX60697859 lying 15.4 metres east-south-east of the newtake wall in this area. This hut is not of national importance and survives as a 3.5 metre diameter area surrounded by a 1.2 metre wide and 0.3 metre high rubble wall. A rubble spread south-east of the hut may be artificial or natural. Slight spreads of rubble downslope on the edge of the clitter may be the result of limited field clearance. Grass and bilberry cover.

Newman, P., 2004, Merrivale Range Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV346874.

(30/11/2004) Merrivale Range Baseline Condition Survey visit. A possible small enclosure is attached to the south side. The hut is in a stable condition amid clitter and under short grass.

Newman, P., 2018, Archaeological Sites within Merrivale Training Area, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: A condition survey on behalf of Defence Infrastructure Organisation (Report - Survey). SDV361635.

A hut circle west of Crow Tor is terraced into the hillside and has a possible entrance on its western side at SX60550 78450.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7441 - Condition survey of the archaeological sites of Merrivale Training Area
• EDV7570 - Condition survey of Merrivale Range training area
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8713 - Merrivale Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey

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