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Summary

Two hut circles on the moderate north facing slope south west of Venford reservoir. Both huts are terraced into the slope but are very overgrown and display no obvious entrances. The eastern hut measures 7 metres.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020092: Prehistoric fields, settlements and cairn south east of Venford Reservoir forming part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE35
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442956
• Old SAM Ref: 22370
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX67SE35

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2149, 4416 (Aerial Photograph). SDV282746.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1955, SX67SE35 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV140071.

(07/05/1955) Hut circles.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX67SE35 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV140070.

SX 6891 7045: Two type 1, hut circles of average internal diameter 6.5 metres with walls 1.3 metres wide and in very poor condition, lie on a moderate, well drained, north east facing slope at 335 metres above OD. They are cut back into the slope and integrated with the field walls of the parallel reave system (SX 67 SE 92). Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

National Monuments Record, 1979, NMR SF1457, 462-465 (Aerial Photograph). SDV172921.

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

Two hut circles visible on aerial photographs at SX 6892 7047 and SX 6893 7044 which is incorporated into a east-west reave of the reave system SX67SE/245. Visible on the 1979 National Monuments Record aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 176-7, Map 59, Figure 59.1 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Hut Circle '1' of 7.7 metres diameter at 'Venford Reservoir East' is connected to Hut Circle '2' to the east by a curved bank which breaks the neat rectangular pattern of the surrounding fields.

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 1997, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (Report - Survey). SDV173671.

(18/04/1996) SX 6890 7046 and SX 6894 7046. Two hut circles on the moderate north facing slope south west of Venford reservoir. Both huts are terraced into the slope but are very overgrown and display no obvious entrances. The eastern hut measures 7 metres.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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