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Summary

Hut in enclosures east of Hentor Brook of 4.7 metres diameter with walls 1.3 metres wide and 0.6 metres high. A robber trench is visible on the southern margin of this hut.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019082: Multi-period remains at Hentor Warren

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 NE 73
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/146/5
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/503
• Old SAM County Ref: 493
• Old SAM Ref Revised: 24230(P)
• Old SAM Ref: 10631
• Old SAM Ref: 10634
• Pastscape: 438708

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 circle shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX56NE73, Hut E (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV152018.

Hut E; one of seven within enclosure on Hentor. Diameter 7m. Walling collapsed completely and is covered by heather. No obvious entrance.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140403 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(16/04/1995) SX 5824 5831; Probably Gerrard's hut 'E'. Hut circle at east end of a curving boundary bank leading from enclosure. Simple plan and rubble bank walling type. Interior is 3.2m in diameter and the surrounding 2m wide wall stands up to 0.7m high except on the southern side where a slight terrace survives. It is considered probable that the southern circuit of the hut has been robbed for stone to build the nearby building.
This is site No.102 819c in the National Trust Upper Plym inventory.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 118-21; Map 49, Figures 49.7 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Eastern half of a hut circle shown on the south side of a boundary within Settlement 'A' at 'Lower Hentor Brook'. This hut was probably demolshed for the construction of the rectangular building to the west.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 211-12/102.819c (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

(15/01/2002) Centred SX 5824 6582. Two incomplete enclosures containing four hut circles and a rectangular structure. The huts are in generally in a good state of preservation and all are terraced into the moderate north-west facing hillside. Three of the huts lie in the northern enclosure:
SX 5825 6585. A robbed hut circle measuring 4.7m in diameter with walls, where surviving, 1.3m wide and 0.6m high. A robber trench is visible on the southern margin of this hut.

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

Hut shown on survey.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Visible on the aerial photography.

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

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1019082 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Within scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey

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