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Summary

A hut circle and several short lengths of contemporary walling in an area of intensive cultivation. The hut has been terraced into the slope to provide a level interior with a diameter of 5.0m enclosed by spread rubble walls 1.4m wide and 0.3m high. There is no obvious entrance. Several lengths of contemporary field boundary are associated with this hut but later disturbance has obliterated any identifiable pattern.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019591: Medieval farmstead and field system, post-medieval tinworks, prehistoric settlements and cairns north and west of Gibby Coombe

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NE125
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1089229
• Old SAM County Ref: 34427

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FIELD BOUNDARY (Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• HUT CIRCLE (Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 1997, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (Report - Survey). SDV173671.

(06/01/1997) SX 68526897. A hut circle and several short lengths of contemporary walling survive in an area of intensive medieval or later cultivation. The hut has been terraced into the slope to provide a level interior with a diameter of 5.0m enclosed by spread rubble walls 1.4m wide and 0.3m high. There is no obvious entrance.
Several lengths of contemporary field boundary are associated with this hut but later disturbance has obliterated any identifiable pattern.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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