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Summary

Hut circle '11' (Butler) to the south of the enclosure on the Penn Moor contour reave to the east of Penn Beacon

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SW40
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/96
• Old SAM County Ref: 445
• Old SAM Ref: 10782

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX66SW40, SX66SW40, Plan (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV154491.

Visited on 30th March 1950. Pound and hut circles, south east of Penn Beacon.
Visited on 17th August 1977. As described by Fleming and Collis. The settlement is earlier than or contemporary with the construction of Penn Moor Reave. No associated fields or plots are visible.

Fleming, A. + Collis, J. + Jones, R. L., 1973, A Late Prehistoric Reave System near Cholwich Town, Dartmoor, 13, Plan, Figures 5-6 (Article in Serial). SDV358808.

Visited in April 1972. Approximately circular though irregular enclosure. One definite entrance to the north-west. Inside the enclosure seven free-standing huts and one attached to the wall. Outside, an outlying hut is attached to Penn Moor Reave.

National Monuments Record, 1976, SX6062, 2 (Aerial Photograph). SDV142425.

Photograph taken on 8th April 1976.

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

Sub-circular enclosure visible incorporated within Penn Moor Reave. Seven hut circles visible freestanding inside the enclosure, with four attached to walls. Three hut circles are close to, or attached to, Penn Moor Reave (two to the east one to the south), and one hut circle lies just outside the southern perimeter of the enclosure.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 178-9, Map 52, Figure 52.4 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Hut circle '11' of 6.2 metres diameter to the south of the enclosure at ' Penn Beacon East' with an entrance to the east.

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, 1012809 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Stone hut circle lies on a south-east facing slope above Ford Brook and to the south of Penn Moor enclosed hut settlement and Penn Moor contour reave. It is 10 metres in diameter and has walls 2 metres in thickness and 1 metre in height, with a probable entrance to the north.

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