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Summary

Isolated hut circle of 5.5 metres diameter with walls up to 0.4 metres high to the east of the River Walkham. This is one of two hut circles in this area.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016148: A prehistoric and historic archaeological landscape within Merrivale Newtake

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57NE41
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 439688
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NE/109
• Old SAM County Ref: 335
• Old SAM Ref: 28788(P)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1964, RAF/F64/58/6399, 041-042 (Aerial Photograph). SDV255307.

Photograph taken on 26th February 1968.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX57NE41 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV221241.

(12/11/1979) At SX 55387596 there is a Type 1 hut circle (SX 56 SE 19) on a slight W slope. It has a levelled interior 5.5m in diameter with a wall of single slabs, mostly fallen and with a maximum height of 0.4m. There is no clear entrance.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD and at 1:2500, (see SX 57 NE 101).

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

Not recorded.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 143925 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Visited on 16th November 1994. Two hut circles situated on a west facing slope of Little Mis Tor. The two huts which are unenclosed and of the simple plan type, survive as stone and earth banks surrounding a circular area. The interior of the northern hut measures 4.6 metres in diameter and is surrounded by a 0.8 metres wide and 0.35 metres high single orthostat wall, except on the north where it survives as a buried feature. The interior of the southern hut measures 6.3 metres in diameter and is surrounded by a 0.9 metres wide and 0.35 metres high single orthostat wall.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 72, Map 30, Site 6 (Monograph). SDV219155.

'Little Mis Tor West 3' consists of a pair of huts both of 6.5 metres diameter which are independent of the large settlements uphill and survive within a bank and ditched enclosure probably associated with the longhouses and cut through by a later tinners' gully. The area is very disturbed and there is no trace of a circuit wall, though some of the hut slabs are still in place.

Ordnance Survey, 2022, Mastermap 2022 (Cartographic). SDV364674.

One 'Hut Circle' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 1016148 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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