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Summary

A stone hut circle forming part of a prehistoric settlement 1100m E of Belstone parish church.
Diameter measures 6.5m. Earthwork and rubble wall 4m wide, 0.6m high. Could be a hut circle that has had some clearance stone dumped upon it. Grass, bracken and three thorn trees.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018925: A warren, two stone hut circle settlements, cairnfields and cairns at Ivy Tor, ESE of Belstone

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX69SW/344
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX69SW/74
• Old SAM Ref: 28727

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/3G/TUD/UK/138, 5364 (Aerial Photograph). SDV238391.

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1995, 4189-90 (Aerial Photograph). SDV224714.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SX69SW35 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV231673.

(20/01/1978) One of a group of five hut circles, all in very poor condition with walls ruined and fragmentary. Average thickness of walling 1.5m to 2.0m. Internal diameter 5.5m. Probably a Type 1 hut with no visible entrance.

National Monuments Record, 1979, SF1455, 30-33 (Aerial Photograph). SDV226093.

Greeves, T. A. P., 1980, Possible ring cairn (Worksheet). SDV253687.

(24/06/1980) Possible large prehistoric ring cairn, consisting of a ring of small stones merging into concave depression of stones in centre of ring. However there appear to be two more or less opposing gaps in the ring, which perhaps casts doubt on its Prehistoric status, or suggests that it may have been some sort of dwelling.
Possibly the same feature as the 'hut circle' noted by the Ordnance Survey. See SX69SW/108 (R.B.).

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

Visible on aerial photographs and recorded (SX63109355).

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 149339 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(26/05/1998) A stone hut circle forming part of a prehistoric settlement 1100m E of Belstone parish church.
At SX 63079352. Diameter measures 6.5m. Earthwork and rubble wall 4m wide, 0.6m high. Could be a hut circle that has had some clearance stone dumped upon it. Grass, bracken and three thorn trees.

Ancient Monuments, 2000, A warren, two stone hut circle settlements, cairnfields and cairns at Ivy Tor, ESE of Belstone (Schedule Document). SDV229908.

A warren, two stone hut circle settlements, cairnfields and cairns at Ivy Tor, SES of Belstone.

Oates, M., 2015, Image of circular 'stony platform' (Photograph). SDV365004.

(09/03/2015) SX 63107 93536. Large circular stony 'platform' photographed. Doughnut-shaped feature about 16m in diameter. The outer 'ring' is 4m and roughly 1m in height, the middle, a depression, is 8m diameter.
Several small, round cairns and a large circular area cut into the hillside were also seen (didn't appear like a hut circle to recorder); no hut circles were noted.

Environment Agency WMS, 2019, LiDAR DSM data (1m resolution), 2019 (Cartographic). SDV362957.

Ordnance Survey, 2022, Mastermap 2022 (Cartographic). SDV364674.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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