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Summary

Hut circle in settlement north-west of Hentor Meadow. One of a group of at least five huts to the east and south-east of the enclosure. Hut circle of 6.2 metres diameter with walls 1.4 metres wide and 0.3 metres high

Location

Protected Status

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

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 NE 79
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/504/3
• Old SAM County Ref: 493
• Old SAM Ref Revised: 24230(P)
• Old SAM Ref: 10637
• Pastscape: 438726

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX56NE79 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV164267.

(02/05/1950) Remains of hut g; one of eight hut circles in an enclosure. In a very ruinous condition, entrance to south. Diameter 8.0m, wall height 0.2m.

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

MPP 140388 (16/04/1995) SX 5850 6575. One of six huts recorded by Gerrard, south-east of the enclosure (MDV3462). Ordnance Survey hut 'G', Gerrard's 'hut E'. Simple plan, rubble bank and single orthostat walling type. Interior is 6m in diameter and the surrounding 1.4m wide wall stands up to 0.7m high. A south-facing gap in the wall, flanked on both sides by granite slabs represents a doorway.
This is site No.102827 in the National Trust inventory (1994).

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

Northern of two hut circles to the south-east of the enclosure in Settlement 'C' at 'Lower Hentor Brook'.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 217-9, 102.827 (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

Gerrard, S., 1995, SAM 24230 (Plan - sketch). SDV164276.

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

(16/01/2002) The remaining huts in the settlement lie to the east and south-east of the enclosure.
SX 5851 6575. A robbed hut circle 6.2m in diameter with walls remaining 1.4m wide and 0.3m high.

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

Hut circle shown on survey.

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

Faint outline of stones visible on the aerial photograph.

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

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey

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