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Summary

One of a scatter of huts and related later structures, south of an enclosed settlement. Previously identified as a pair of conjoined hut circles, this is a sub-rectangular structure measuring 3.3 metres north to south by 1.6 metres with walls 1.4 metres wide and 0.6 metres high. An entrance is positioned in the north-eastern corner and a small annex 2.6 metres north-south by 3.5 metres adjoins the southern end.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018356: Stone hut circle settlement 600m ENE of Great Trowlesworthy Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 SE 2
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/93/1
• Pastscape: 439109

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• (Alternate Type) HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)
• BUILDING (Constructed, Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 133399, 18/5/1994 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(SX 5849 6458) Two stone hut circles situated immediately south of an agglomerate enclosure. Terraced into the hillslope. Conjoined plan and rubble bank walling type. Interior of the southern building is oval in shape, measures 3 metres by 2.5 metres and is defined by a 1.1 metre wide wall standing up to 0.4 metres high. Interior of northern structure is also oval, measures 3.5 metres by 2 metres and is surrounded by a 1.6 metre wide wall standing up to 0.4 metres high. An east-south-east facing gap in the wall surrounding the northern building may represent an original doorway.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 162-3, Map 51, Figure 51.6 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Hut Circle '3' within Settlement 'B' at Upper Spanish Lake is a double hut which is oval in shape of 3.4 metres by 2.0 metres with a curving extension to the south.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

SX58506459. A sub-rectangular structure measuring 3.3 metres north to south by 1.6 metres with walls 1.4 metres wide and 0.6 metres high. An entrance is positioned in the north-eastern corner and a small annex 2.6 metres north-south by 3.5 metres adjoins the southern end.
The form of these structures suggests two phases/periods of occupation, the sub-rectangular buildings following and perhaps reoccupying the sites of the more conventional hut circles.

English Heritage, 2005, Survey Information (miscellaneous date) (Report - Survey). SDV345855.

Rectangular feature with an extension to the south shown on survey.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

Two hut circles shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1018356 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape

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