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Summary

To the south west of the enclosure (MDV130554) a circular platform, diameter 8 metres and up to 1.0 metre deep (where it is cut back into the slope), surrounded by several orthostats is the only remains of this hut.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1004585: Hut circles SE of Brisworthy

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE54
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 438653
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/142
• Old SAM County Ref: 432

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

'Hut Circles' shown on 19th century map. This hut circle is shown to the south-west of the oval enclosure.

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs, 1890 4288-9 (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1977, SX56NE54, Hut B (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV251048.

(01/06/1950) Hut 'B'. Remains of large double walled hut circle. Wall is of large flat stones comprising inner and outer faces with small stones and soil filling the spaces between. There is no visible entrance.
(22/06/1977) To the south west of the enclosure (MDV130554) a circular platform, diameter 8m and up to 1.0m deep (where it is cut back into the slope), surrounded by several orthostats is the only remains of the second hut. Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

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

Not visible 1946 RAF verticals.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 111, Map 49 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Brisworthy settlement consisting of an oval enclosure with one internal hut and this hut of circa 8.5 metres diameter linked to the wall.

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

Hut circle shown on modern mapping to the south of the enclosure.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1004585 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

The monument includes an enclosed stone hut circle, boundary bank and further hut circle situated to the south-east of Brisworthy overlooking the Plym Valley. An outlying hut circle is linked to the enclosure by a short connecting wall. The stone hut circles are defined by double orthostatic walls measuring up to 1.5 metres wide and 0.7 metres high which surround their interiors and measure up to 8 metres in diameter internally. The enclosure is cut by a farm leat and track.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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