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Summary

Hut circle '79' of 2.3 metres diameter with walls 1.6 metres wide by up to 0.7 metres high at Watern Oke settlement. Excavations in 1905 led the excavators to suggest that this building was a cook-house

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011568: A stone hut circle forming part of an unenclosed settlement, and tinners' building at Watern Oke

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58SE/16/58
• Old SAM County Ref: 488
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX58SE9

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Anderson, I. K., 1906, 11th Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee (Article in Serial). SDV337055.

Hut 79 of 3 metres by 2.44 metres of very rough work and not a true circle constructed in the clitter.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX58SE9, SX58SE9 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV232751.

SX 5660 8345 One of a group of hut circles at Watern Oak.
Hut 79 (Measures 3m by 2.44m); of very rough work indeed, not a true circle, constructed in the clitter.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 123915 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Visited in 1992. Hut circle terraced into the hillslope. Simple plan and rubble bank walling type. The interior measures 2.3 metres in diameter and is defined by a 1.6 metres wide wall standing up to 0.7 metres high. Excavations by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1905 led the excavators to suggest that this building was a cook-house.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 109-110, Map 33, Figure 33.1 (Monograph). SDV219155.

The hollow immediately to the west of building '5' was interpreted by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee as the cookhouse for building '5'.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015 onwards, 2015 onward Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV362959.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1011568 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

This monument includes a stone hut circle and a medieval or post-medieval rectangular tinners' building situated on a gentle south-facing slope overlooking the River Tavy; the hut circle forms part of the large unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke. The stone hut circle is terraced into the hillslope and is composed of a stone and earth wall 1.6 metres wide and 0.7 metres high, surrounding an internal area measuring 2.3 metres in diameter. During June and July 1905 these structures were partially excavated by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee. There is no record of findings within the stone hut circle, though it was interpreted by the excavators as a cook-house.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8679 - Okehampton Range: Management Survey
• EDV8291 - Okehampton Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
• EDV8695 - Survey of Okehampton North Dartmoor Military Range

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