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Summary

Isolated hut circle within the Shaugh Moor field system

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Bronze age landscapes on Shaugh Moor and Wooter Moor comprising earthworks and walling of enclosures, hut circles, cairns, stone circles and rows, reaves and field systems, and medieval and post medieval field systems

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56SE134
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 439489
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/332

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1980, SX56SE134 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV143545.

(03/09/1980) At SX 55286299 there is circular hut platform which has been largely stripped of stone. It has a diameter of 6.0m. and is levelled into a slight east slope. Nine blocks and slabs survive on the circumference, and two pairs of opposing stones on the N. side show that it was originally of Type 2 (SX 56 NE 71) with walling 1.2m. wide and 0.6m. high. (see ground photograph).
Surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D.

Collis, J., 1983, Field Systems and Boundaries on Shaugh Moor and at Wotter, Dartmoor (Article in Serial). SDV144058.

House 't'. Circa 5 metres diameter and where unrobbed consists of a double wall of stones. Lies in an area of boulders, but overlooks whole area west of reave and may be for surveillance of livestock.

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

Not recorded on aerial photographs.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 102-103, Map 48, Figure 48.4 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Isolated hut circle within Shaugh Moor field system to the north of Enclosure 'B'.

Fletcher, M. + Probert, S., 1998, Shaugh Moor, Devon: An Archaeological Survey (Report - Survey). SDV343481.

(Visited 01/12/1997) The remains of a hut circle at SX55286299, are levelled into a west-facing slope. It is overall 8.0 metres in diameter with a level interior 5.6 metres across cut 0.5 metres into the slope and with a 0.4 metres high front scarp. It originally had a double-faced wall which now survives up to 0.6 metres high only in the north-west quadrant, elsewhere only irregularly spaced boulders and stone mark the perimeter. The position of the entrance is not discernible.

Fletcher, M. + Probert, S., 1998, Shaugh Moor, Devon: An Archaeological Survey (Report - Survey). SDV343481.

(01/12/1997) SX55286299. The remains of a hut circle are levelled into a west-facing slope. It is overall 8.0m in diameter with a level interior 5.6m across cut 0.5m in to the slope and with an 0.4m high front scarp. It originally had a double-faced wall which now survives up to 0.6m high only in the north-west quadrant, elsewhere only irregularly spaced boulders and stone mark the perimeter. The position of the entrance is not discernible. It lies within the extensive parallel reave system (SX 56 SE 78) although there is no obvious association.

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

Hut circle shown on survey.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, SM15 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited 04/08/2019. Nine stones & two opposing stones make up the remains of hut circle. 50% of site covered in bracken, light grazing in areas not covered in bracken. Site is stable. Photo taken

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, SM15 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Visited 04/08/2019. Photo taken giving an overall view of the hut circle showing the northern side stone. Taken looking south

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

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4967 - Shaugh Moor Survey (1997-1998)

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