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Summary

Western of two adjoining hut circles within the enclosure south-west of Shell Top

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Cholwich Town, Penn Beacon and Shell Top Reaves. Earthworks of Bronze Age boundary works with adjacent prehistoric enclosures and hut circles, cairns and stone rows
• Scheduled Monument 1017399: Cholwich Town contour reave, cairn and two enclosures

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56SE59
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/25
• Old SAM Ref: 10754
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

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 on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX56SE59, SX56SE59, Plan (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV139471.

Visited on 30th May 1950. Enclosure shown on 6 inch map. Hut circle diameter 6 metres at SX59376344.
Visited on 31st August 1977 at SX59386344. This enclosed settlement contains thirteen, terraced, type 2 hut circles, average internal diameter 3.5 metres with walls 1.0 metre wide and in poor, to very poor condition.

Fleming, A. + Collis, J. + Jones, R. L., 1973, A Late Prehistoric Reave System near Cholwich Town, Dartmoor, 8, Figures 1 and 3 (Article in Serial). SDV358808.

Visited in April 1972. Large, sub-rectangular enclosure with at least 16 hut circles, mostly central, but with an important group in the northern corner.

National Monuments Record, 1976, NMR SX5863, 2 (Aerial Photograph). SDV148504.

Photograph taken on 8th April 1976.

SMR, 1981, Shell Top settlement (Photograph). SDV139474.

Three slides taken on 25th June 1981.

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

Sub-rectangular enclosure visible containing three smaller enclosures, one containing eleven hut circles, one containing two huts and the other one hut circle.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 160-1, Map 51, Figure 51.4 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Western of two adjoining hut circles within the 'Shell Top south-west enclosure'.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Hut circle shown on survey.

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

Hut circle visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1017399 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

The enclosure at the eastern end of the reave contains at least sixteen hut circles.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8098 - The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping (formerly NMP) Survey, Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (Ref: ACD2040)

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