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Summary

Hut circle within Corringdon Ball field system. It has an internal diameter of 5.7m and has been levelled into a north slope to a depth of 0.4m. Walling, 1.2m wide and 0.3m high, is visible for a short distance on each side of an entrance gap on the south.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1010479: Stone hut circle south west of Corringdon Ball
• SHINE: Earthworks and surviving stone-walls of Bronze Age parallel reaves, field system and hut circles on Corringdon Ball and Treeland Downs, Bronze Age hut circles and medieval settlement at Newland's Brakes and pillow mounds on south side of Corringdon Ball

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SE127
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442140
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/113
• Old SAM Ref: 10871

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX66SE127 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV149334.

(17/07/1979) A Type 2 hut circle (Type Site: SX 56 NE 71) was found at SX 67186072 during field work. It has an internal diameter of 5.7m and has been levelled into a north slope to a depth of 0.4m. Walling, 1.2m wide and 0.3m high, is visible for a short distance on each side of an entrance gap on the south.
Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. (See also SX 66 SE 116 for plan.)

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

Not visible on 1980 and 1948 aerial photographs. Vis=estimated -/-/1990 (ancient monuments). Diameter 7m (am).

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 87-9,Map 56, Figure 56.5 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Hut circle shown on the south side of a field boundary within 'Corringdon Ball Field system'.

Ordnance Survey, 2020, MasterMap 2020 (Cartographic). SDV363413.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2020, National Heritage List for England, 1010479 (National Heritage List for England). SDV363414.

This stone hut circle lies on the south western slope of Corringdon Ball and forms part of a concentration of occupation evidence surviving in the area. It is 7 metres in diameter and is set into the slope to a depth of 0.4 metres. The walls measure 1.2 metres in width and 0.3 metres in height and there is an entrance to the south.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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