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Summary

A Bronze Age hut circle measuring 5m in diameter surrounded by a low stoney rim 1.2m wide and 0.2m high. There is no visible entrance.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018930: Two irregular aggregate field systems with associated settlements, part of a coaxial field system, boundary stones and historic fields on Riddon Ridge
• SHINE: Earthworks and stone walling remains of an extensive Bronze Age field system, reaves, enclosures, cairns and hut circle settlements on Riddon Ridge overlain with a medieval field system and associated enclosures and Whiteslade post-medieval farmstead

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NE153
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 913464
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NE/242
• Old SAM Ref: 28733

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, 2459-2461 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

National Monument Record, 1977, SX6676/2, 92-94 (Aerial Photograph). SDV246868.

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

Hut circle just outside some banks which are part of the field system SX67NE/150. Visible on 1977 NMR and 1946 RAF aerial photographs.

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

(07/09/1992) SX 66917648. A hut circle lies within a series of contemporary enclosures (SX 67 NE 136) on the moderately sloping eastern flank of Riddon Ridge, west of Grendon Strip Plantation. The hut consists of a levelled stance 5.0m in diameter surrounded by a low stoney rim 1.2m wide and 0.2m high. There is no trace of an entrance.
The associated fields vary in size from 0.02ha to 0.45ha and are enclosed by stoney banks, often poorly preserved, measuring on average 1.4m wide and 0.4m high. Within the same field system are a further four huts (SX 67 NE 50, 134 and 144).
For detailed 1:2500 plan see RCHME Riddon Ridge survey.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152107 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(17/03/1999) SX 6697 7639 Stone hut circle forming part of a prehistoric settlement situated within an irregular aggregate field system on Riddon Ridge. Diameter 5m. Earthwork wall. A slight hollow measuring 5m in diameter was seen at the time of the MPP visit.
A hut is shown in this location by Fleming, the Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments in England surveyor and Butler, but dense gorse growth at the time of the visit may have made detailed measurements impossible.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8296 - Dartmeet Premier Archaeological Landscape (PAL) Field Investigation Project
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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