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Summary

The remains of a possible cairn or hut circle.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS14NW/52

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HUT CIRCLE (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2200 BC to 42 AD (Between))
• RING CAIRN (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

GARDNER, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV483.

Possible site of hut circle on tibbets hill (gardner).

NMR, CITING HISTORY OF LUNDY (1925, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV495.

The barrow on tibbets hill was examined by loyd in 1922. A roughly squared granite block was found to rest upon two similar blocks parallel to each other and at right angles to the first one. Two small pieces of flint were found in the earth (nmr, citing history of lundy (1925)12 + lundy bristol channel (1960)81, with no further reference).

NMR, CITING GARDNER, 1968, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV497.

Another, probable burial cairn (b:ss13864632) lies 51m to ne, on a small headland. It is composed of heather covered loose stones and earth 6.5m wide e-w and 5.5m n-s. Its height is 0.3m and it has a hollow in its centre (nmr, citing os). Probable hut sites have been noted on tibbets hill at ss13804628 and ss13854635 (nmr, citing gardner, 1968).

NMR, CITING GARDNER, 1975, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV498.

An iron age hut at middle park, tibbets hill, ss13864632, is possibly related to the adjacent field system (nmr, citing gardner, 1975).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV500.

Gardner, k. S. /lundy field soc annual report/19(1968)41.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV501.

Ntas/lundy,devon/1(1989)45/101,066.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV502.

Gardner, k. S. /lundy field society annual report/17(1965-66)32.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV503.

Gardner, k. S. /archaeology of lundy/(1975)421.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV504.

Nmr=ss14nw9.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV505.

Ntas/lundy/devon/(1996)/no 108184/in smr.

National Trust, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV52.

An area of irregularly dispersed stone adjacent to a wall of the field system (ss14nw-051), immediately sw of lookout. May be remains of a hut circle (nt).

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Untitled Source (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV24.

Vis=18/5/1962 (os) the published barrow (a:ss13834628) is a turf covered cairn of small loose stones, 11m in diam and 0.7m high.

Quinnell, H., 2010, Prehistoric and Roman material from Lundy, 25 (Article in Serial). SDV363523.

Quinnel refers to a ring cairn at Middle Park which was reused as a hut circle. A similar reuse has also been recorded during excavations at Stannon Down on Bodmin Moor.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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