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Summary

Southern of three hut circles within settlement to the east of Frenchbeer Rock

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1017483: Two stone hut circles and part of a coaxial field system at Frenchbeer Rock

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NE36
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443586
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/87
• Old SAM County Ref: 982
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX68NE36

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, 303 (Article in Serial). SDV304174.

Ormerod notes presence of hut-circles at Frenchbere.

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2082, 3287-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDV221887.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1974, SX68NE36, plan (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV237877.

(22/07/1974) Three hut circles in settlement. At SX67198548 a hut circle 6.0 metres internal diameter with a single wall of orthostats up to 1.0 metre high, but some evidence that it was originally double walled. The entrance is in the south-west. At SX67208546 a rather robbed double-walled hut up to 1.0 metre high. The entrance is in the south-west. At SX67228542 four stones on the perimeter of a slight platform approximately 6.0 metres internal diameter indicate the site of a robbed hut.
Slight remains of field walls associated with the huts can be seen in the vicinity but not enough for description of the former extent. Both huts and the site surveyed at 1:2500.

Robinson, R., 1982, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1982 (Un-published). SDV342809.

Visited 10/02/1982.

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

(06/01/1992) Centred SX 67218544. A cluster of three hut circles and several fragmentary enclosures on the gentle SE slope of Chagford Common 50m E of Frenchbeer Rock. Two of the huts 1 and 2 are well preserved, while the third has been extensively robbed. Internal diameters vary from around 5.2m to 0.8m and entrances, where visible, are to the SW.
These features lie within a poorly developed parallel reave system (SX 68 NE 146). For detailed 1:2500 plan see RCHME Thornworthy Down survey.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 175, Map 36, Site 3 (Monograph). SDV219155.

The sites of other huts near the settlement east of Frenchbeer Rock are visible on aerial photographs.

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

Hut circle shown on survey.

Cartographic Engineering, 2006, Dartmoor 2006 1:1250 Aerial Photography (digital) (Aerial Photograph). SDV345590.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.

Not shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1017483 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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