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Summary

A massively built hut circle of 9.3 metres by 8.7 metres with walls 1 metre wide by up to 1.4 metres high lies within enclosed moorland approximately 300 metres east of Kes Tor rock. A well-defined entrance 1.1 metres wide lies in the south-east side

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016691: Coaxial field system and prehistoric settlements at Kestor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NE37
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443589
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/107
• Old SAM Ref: 28714

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

'Hut Circle' shown on 19th century map.

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

Fox, A., 1954, Celtic Fields and Farms on Dartmoor in Light of Recent Excavations at Kestor, 87 (Article in Serial). SDV231175.

Hut circle marked on Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 map. Associated with possible field system (SX68NE/108).

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1974, SX68NE37, SX68NE37 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV227540.

(18/07/1974) SX 6684 8626 A single walled hut with slab stones up to 1.2 metres high and an internal diameter of 9.0 metres. It is in an area of enclosed moorland with only fragmentary associated field walls. Published 1:2500 survey revised.

National Monument Record, 1977, NMR SX6785, 1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV227539.

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

Visible and recorded.

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

(16/10/1990) SX 6684 8627. A massively built hut circle lies within enclosed moorland approximately 300m east of Kestor Rock. The slightly ovoid hut measures 9.3 metres north-south by 8.7 metres east-west internally with walls of upright slabs and blocks 1 metre wide and up to 1.4 metres high. A well-defined entrance 1.1 metres wide lies in the south-east side. The hut has a level interior and has been terraced on its eastern margin.
Two less well preserved huts (MDV28611) are situated 40 metres to the east and several sections of contemporary walling, elements of the Shovel Down parallel reave system lie in the immediate area. (See SX 68 NE 94, illustration card 1 No 2).

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 149146 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(02/04/1997) At SX 6683 8625. Stone hut circle forming part of a prehistoric settlement within the Kestor coaxial field system. Diameter 8.3m. Double orthostat wall 1.9m wide, 1.25m high. Internal are 54.07m. A fine hut composed of huge edge set orthostats. Door faces 150 degrees. A flat stone in the passageway may represent a fallen jamb. Grass with a hawthorn tree in the south-east wall.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 170-174, Map 36, Figure 36.1 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle at 'Kes Tor settlement'.

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

Hut circle shown on survey.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1016691 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8653 - Teigncombe Farm, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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