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Summary

Fragmentary enclosure with huts north-west of Hen Tor is one of a cluster of irregular and incompletely preserved enclosures containing 20 hut circles lying between the clitter west of Hen Tor and the former enclosed land around Hentor Farm. The enclosure banks are generally 1.5 metres wide and exist up to 0.7 metres high (2002 survey).

Location

Protected Status

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

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE78
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/158
• Pastscape: 438723

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ENCLOSURE (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.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX56NE78 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV363230.

(10/04/1979) Below Hentor on a north-west facing clitter-covered slope, between 347.0m and 370.0m OD, are the remains of a partly enclosed settlement of twenty-six huts occupying an area of 4.5 hectares. There are two main enclosures, each incomplete, constructed of piled stones to form walling 1.5m thick and 0.5m high. No distinctive entrances are visible. The majority of the huts are connected by a rickle of stones.
Six lie within the first enclosure and two in the second. The huts appear to be of Type 2 with southern entrances and levelled interiors. The internal diameters vary from 2.0m to 5.0m with a mean of 3.3m. The hut walling averages 1.0m thick and 0.6m high. The site is generally in poor condition. (Type site: SX 56 NE 71). Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

National Monuments Record, 1983, NMR SF2134, 53, 54 (Aerial Photograph). SDV238551.

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

Two element agglomerated enclosure, the major part overlain by right angle formed by junction of two fields of field system (SX56nNE/379) of Hentor House. Five hut circles attached to enclosure walls. Freestanding hut circle to east of large element.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140437, 18/5/1995 MPP 140439? (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(At SX 5905 6549, SX 5905 6546 + SX 5908 6544). Four hut circles and length of boundary bank forming part of a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement. Buildings survive as banks of earth and stone surrounding a circular internal area and are linked to each other by a length of rubble bank which is up to 2m wide and 0.4m high. The relationship between the buildings and the rubble bank is unclear, but they appear to be bonded suggesting that they were built at the same time. See related records for hut details.
The rubble bank connecting these huts may have once formed part of a complex series of enclosures associated with the partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement situated on the lower slopes of Hentor.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 122-3, Map 49, Figure 49.8 (Monograph). SDV137656.

The north-west part of Settlement 'D' at 'Upper Hentor Brook' on the west side of Hen Tor includes many sections of walling, some enclosing hut circles with others adjoining or between hut circles. This group includes at least six hut circles of 3.5 to 4.5 metres diameter.

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

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

(22/03/2002) Centred SX 5910 6543. A cluster of irregular and incompletely preserved enclosures containing 20 hut circles lie between the clitter W of Hen Tor and the former enclosed land around Hentor Farm. It is impossible to determine the original extent of this settlement as it has been severely disturbed by later activity which seems to have resulted in the removal of several elements and the obfuscation of most others. The enclosure banks are generally 1.5m wide and exist up to 0.7m high though some have been heightened by the addition of clearance stone in the post medieval period and others have been robbed to ground level.
Of the 26 huts recorded in 1979, only 20 can be positively identified, the remainder existing as small hollows in the clitter. All have been partially or wholly infilled by clearance material and few original features are apparent.

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

Features shown on survey.

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

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

Boundaries shown on modern mapping.

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

This monument includes extensive prehistoric and historic archaeological monuments situated within Hentor Warren, which lies between the Shavercombe and Hentor Brooks.

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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