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Summary

Hut circle '3' (Butler) of 10 metres diameter with walls 2 metres wide by 1 metre high with upright facing stones and a paved entrance to south-east. The hut was restored after excavation in 1964-6 leaving spoil mounds outside the hut. Finds included charcoal, pottery sherds and two granite saddle quern stone bases.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012485: Enclosure with hut circles north of Scad Brook

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX65NE/23/1
• Pastscape: 441139

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Anon, 1964, Excavation of a Dartmoor hut Scadbrook, Ugborough Moor (Article in Serial). SDV145898.

Excavation of a Dartmoor hut, Scadbrook, Ugborough Moor.
Hut, one of several forming an enclosed group near Scadbrook, was partly excavated. Internal diameter of hut 6 metres, walls 1-2 metres wide. Outside the hut a test pit was dug and produced a quantity of charcoal, scraps of pottery, an oval quartzite pebble with high gloss due to utilization, two granite grinding stones with smooth flat faces, one large enough to be a saddle quern.

Gaskell-Brown, C. + Hankin, C., 1974 -1978, Ugborough Parish Checklist, Page 93/215 (PF, IDOX) (Worksheet). SDV161354.

Scad Brook, Glazebrook, near Owley Gate, elevation 244 metres. In the higher part of the enclosure (SX65NE/23) on the left bank of the Scad Brook, near the enclosure wall there is a large hut circle which shows signs of a recent cleaning up. The walls have been cleaned on the inner side and the interior of the hut has been cleaned. The doorway in the south is 0.56 metres wide, with one jamb standing 1.18 metres high. The other jamb stands, but not so high. The floor of the doorway is paved. Internal diameter 6.1 metres. Wall height 0.76 metres (undated).

Masson Phillips, E. N., 1982, Archaeological Notes III. The Excavation of a Dartmoor Hut, 57-62, figs 1-7 (Article in Serial). SDV176912.

Hut at SX6665 6001 excavated during three summers (1964-66) by E. N. Masson Phillips and students at the Slapton Ley Field Studies Centre.
Internal diameter of the hut is 19 feet, 8 inches (6.0 metres) with walls 5 feet 6 inches (1.7 metres) to 6 feet (1.8 metres) thick. Entrance to south-east. Wall of double skin, rubble filled construction. Entrance 'paved' with rubble and with two upright side-stones, 4 foot 1 inch (1.25 metres) and 3 foot 1 inch (0.95 metres) in height and 1 foot 11 inches (0.33 metres) apart.
A large central post hole and six radial post holes suggests roof was supported by six ribs. Hearth with charcoal and 'pot boilers'. Pottery consisted of thick reddish ware with granite and quartz grit, and a thinner darker ware resembling late Bronze Age Dean Moor pottery. Two saddle quern base stones were found; one placed in the centre post-hole, apparently reused as a footing for the centre post. Three pieces of broken granite with artificially smoothed faced (thought to be grinding stones) were also found.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 84, Map 56, Figure 56.2 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Hut Circle '3' of 6.0 metres diameter at 'Scad Brook North' has been excavated. Its inner facing of slabs complete around the levelled floor and a pair of door posts 0.4 metres apart at the south-east entrance.

Ordnance Survey, 2018, MasterMap 2018 (Cartographic). SDV360652.

Depicted on the modern mapping, which matches the 2010 and 2015 aerial photography of the site, so is thought to be fairly accurate.

Riley, H., 2021, Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Landscape, Harford and Ugborough, 4, 3.6, 13, 7.2.2, (Report - Survey). SDV364697.

Hut circle within settlement between Owley Corner and Glaze Meet on the north side of Scad Brook. Hut 'H' excavated by E N Masson Phillips in 1964-6 when finds included Bronze Age pottery and the bases of two saddle querns placed in a central posthole.

Riley, H., 2021, UG21 heritage asset database and gazetteer of sites (Report - Survey). SDV364699.

Visited on 20th April 2021, surveyed and photographed. Hut circle 'H' 10 metres diameter, restored after excavation, walls 2 metres wide, 1 metre high with upright facing stones, paved entrance to south-east, spoil mounds outside the hut.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds

• FDV7012 - SADDLE QUERN (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC?)
• FDV7013 - SHERD (Late Bronze Age - 1000 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Events

• EDV7653 - Excavation of a hut circle near Scadbrook, Ugborough
• EDV8770 - Archaeological Survey: Ugborough Premier Archaeological Lanscape, Harford and Ugborough

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