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Summary

Hut circle of 5.5 metres diameter with rebuilt post medieval walls of 1 metre wide by 0.9 metres high and later used as amilitary target

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1008712: An enclosure boundary wall, thirteen stone hut circles and a round cairn on Nattor Down and Hamlyn's Newtake

Other References/Statuses

• National Record of the Historic Environment: 440770
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58SW/160
• Old SAM Ref: 22249
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX58SW48

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• (Former Type) HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• SHEEP FOLD (Constructed, Post Medieval - 1540 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))
• TARGET (Constructed, Modern - 1751 AD (Between) to 2013 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX58SW48, SX58SW48 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV221575.

(23/08/1979) At SX 54088348, isolated but clearly visible from a distance, is a structure which initially looks like a hut circle but may have been a sheep fold.
It has an unlevelled interior 6.2m. in diameter with roughly coursed walling of large stones. The wall is 0.9m. wide and 1.0m. high with an entrance gap in the S.W. The size of the stones, the proportions of the wall and the unlevelled floor are not features of the normal hut circle. It has also been used to hold a military target and it is not impossible that it is of military origin.
Surveyed at 1:10 00 on M.S.D. to avoid later confusion.

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 133077 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(1993) At SX 54198348. Stone hut circle within an entrance to a large enclosure. Simple plan and coursed walling type. Interior measures 5.5m in diameter and is defined by a 1m wide drystone wall standing up to 0.9m high. The visible walls are clearly of post-medieval date and probably represent a sheep-fold constructed on the site of an earlier stone hut circle.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 99-100, Map 32, Figure 32.2, Site 3 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle '7' at 'Hamlyn's Newtake' settlement of 5.8 metres diameter has been rebuilt, probably as an animal pen.

Probert, S. + Fletcher, M. + Newman, P., 1998, Willsworthy Training Area, Peter Tavy, Devon: An Archaeological survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (Report - Survey). SDV350638.

(02/08/1998) This feature is as described in 1979. The walls are obviously recent constructions and the interior is sloping and rubble strewn. There is no evidence to suppose that this feature was originally a prehistoric hut circle as suggested by the SMR. Its current form coupled with the amount of military hardware it contains suggest that it is of recent origin, probably allied to the use of this area as an anti tank firing range until at least the 1970's.

Probert, S., 2001, Willsworthy Training Area, Peter Tavy, Devon. Integrated Land Management Plan Implementation: Archaeological Condition Baseline Survey Appendices 2-5 (Report - Survey). SDV357727.

(23/01/2001) This feature remains as described.

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, 1008712 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7368 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area, Peter Tavy (1998)
• EDV6663 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6664 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6665 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV8141 - Condition survey of the Willsworthy Training Area

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