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Summary

Unenclosed settlement to the north-west of Forder Brook and to the east of Kennon Hill with at least eight hut circles. The huts vary in their dimensions and range from 5 metres to 13 metres in diameter. The two largest have turfed over double walls. Scheduled.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Bronze Age landscape comprising the earthworks and walling of a field system on the east bank of Cheriton Combe linked to a parallel reave system on Throwleigh Common with a south-west contour reave with numerous enclosures, cairns and hut circles
• Scheduled Monument 1018916: Coaxial field system, associated and later remains at Throwleigh Common and Kennon Hill

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NE60
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 44367
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/52
• Old SAM Ref: 28694

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2082, 3383-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDV221887.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SX68NE60 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV254327.

(27/06/1978) Centred at SX 65168976 on a south-east facing hillslope overlooking Forder Brook are the remains of a small nucleated Bronze Age settlement. Though field investigation was hampered by high bracken, six well-preserved hut circles were identified. Two 13.0m in diameter, three 7.5m diameter, and one 5.0m diameter.
The two largest, both in the south of the group, have turfed- over double walls up to 0.5m high and 2.0m thick, with the most southerly showing evidence of an entrance in the east. The four others are all of similar construction having simple orthostatic walling up to 0.4m high.
There are traces of fragmentary walling linking some of the huts, and under more favourable field conditions it is almost certain that this site would yield more information.
Surveyed at 1:2500 on AM.

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

Visible and recorded on RAF photos.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 148985-92. (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 199, Map 39, Site 3 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Site '3' to the east of Kennon Hill with ten hut circles of between 3.8 metres to 7.5 metres diameter.

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

Four or five of the huts are discernible from the aerial photography. The more southerly of the group are less obvious.

Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.

Seven huts and a fragment of walling are depicted on the modern mapping.

Environment Agency WMS, 2022, Environment Agency LIDAR Composite DSM 2022 - 1m Last return (Cartographic). SDV365448.

Huts are visible on the lidar data.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1018916 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Part of Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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