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Summary

Hut circle of 3.8 metres diameter with partly turf-covered walls circa 0.9 metres wide within agglomerated settlement on Challacombe Down

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1021393: Medieval strip field system, tinworks, part of a prehistoric settlement, a cairn and reave on Challacombe Down

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 68 SE 63
• Pastscape: 443864

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 13/04/1947, CPE/UK/1995, 4358-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDV217286.

Photograph taken on 13th April 1947.

National Monuments Record, 1977, SX6880, 1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV281707.

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

Three hut circles are visible amongst rectilinear enclosures and banks. The 'enclosures' are not complete, and may be the remains of a field system.

Pattison, P., 1990, Challacombe (Report - Survey). SDV290295.

Visited on 23rd May 1990. Hut circle (C) at SX68588022 on the north-west arc has an internal diameter of 3.8 metres with partly turf-covered walls circa 0.9 metres wide but visible inside the enclosure only as vegetation marks. The hut is terraced by building up the west arc to 1.7 metres where it forms the enclosure wall. A large upright stone on the southern may flank an entrance. Immediately to the south is a low stony line 0.8 metres wide and 0.1 metres high defining an oval area 3.9 metres north to south by 2.5 metres, possibly an annexe to Hut (C) or a poorly preserved adjacent hut.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 16-18, Figure 24.1 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle '1' of 4.3 metres diameter on the north-west side of enclosure within Settlement 'A' at Challacombe Down West.

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

Hut circle shown on survey.

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

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 1021393 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

Remains of prehistoric date include part of a settlement, a length of reave and a cairn. The settlement lies in the north western corner of the monument and survives as two agglomerated enclosures containing three stone hut circles together with a further single enclosure containing one hut.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, unknown, SX68SE63, SX68SE63 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV295520.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8658 - Challacombe, Duchy Farms Survey

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