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Summary

One of a group of hut circles within enclosure north of Harrowthorn Plantation

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012739: Enclosure with hut circles north of Harrowthorn Plantation

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SW25
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/83
• Old SAM County Ref: 846
• Old SAM Ref: 10507

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Hut circle shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX66SW25, SX66SW25 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV156966.

Visited on 31st March 1950. Settlement; pounds and hut circles north of Harrowthorn Pantation. The hut circles are correct as shown on map but enclosures are very fragmentary.
Visited on 1st August 1977. The remains of 20 hut circles can be identified.

National Monuments Record, 1977, SX6262, 3 (Aerial Photograph). SDV156968.

Photograph taken on 14th April 1977.

Robinson, R., 1984, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1984 (Un-published). SDV343082.

Visited on 30th June 1984.

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

Enclosure visible on aerial photographs containing 22 huts, three of them incorporated into walls.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 187-8, Map 52, Figure 52.10 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Hut circle within 'Coombe Brook' settlement to the north of Harrowthorn Plantation in the north-west part of the enclosure.

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

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, 1012739 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Enclosure north of Harrowthorn Plantation lies on the west slope of Stalldown and contains 19 hut circles terraced into the slope. The hut walls remain to a height of three courses of stone up to 0.7 metres high and 3 metres thick with hut diameters of up to 12 metres.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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