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Summary

Hut circle to the east of enclosure at Smith Hill

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Bronze Age enclosure with hut circles and field system at Smith Hill and Muddilake with late medieval or later enclosure banks or field system and streamworking along the brook to the west

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NW108
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442806
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/123

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ormerod, G. W., 1864, On the Hut Circles on the Eastern Side of Dartmoor, 307 (Article in Serial). SDV304174.

Ormerod notes the occurrence of hut circles to the west of the Cherrybrook at Smith's Hill.

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Hut circle clearly visible on the aerial photography and fragmentary outline of enclosure also visible.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX67NW108 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV241907.

(12/12/1979) The surviving hut, at SX 63297580, is in poor condition but appears to be of Type 1 (SX 56 SE 19). It has a level interior 6.6 metres in diameter and rubble walling 1.1 metres wide and 0.2 metres high. No entrance is visible.
Hut surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD and at 1:2500 for AO Records.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(10/08/1989) The hut circle exists as a clearing in the surrounding long tufty grass. The level interior, 6.5m N-S by 5.2m E-W is enclosed by a low bank 1.2 to 1.5m wide with a maximum height of 0.2m on the W margin where some stone protrudes through the turf. No entrance or facing slabs are apparent and the site has not been terraced into the hillside.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 46, Map 27 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle of circa 6.0 metres diameter on the eastern slope to the east of the enclosure.

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.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8640 - Spaders and Muddilake and Smith Hill Newtakes, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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