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Summary

Hut circle terraced into hillslope. Simple plan and rubble bank walling. Oval. Internal measurements 4.5 metres by 3.0 metres. Wall 1.6 metres wide, 0.6 metres high. Doorway survives as a gap in south-south-east wall.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011177: Nine huts, five post-medieval shelters and a field boundary forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 1180m south of North Hessary Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 57 SE 26
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/1/15
• Old SAM County Ref: 935
• Old SAM Ref: 22324
• Pastscape: 440098

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX57SE26, G (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV225907.

Hut circle G. One of a group of nine hut circles, south of the track of an old railway.
(24/8/1950) Hut G (SX5770 7307). Double walled type diameter 5.0 metres, wall width 1.25 metres, 0.4 metres high, small, composed of turf covered stones. Condition fair; entrance on the south-east side.

Fleming, A., 1988, The Dartmoor Reaves: Investigating Prehistoric Land Divisions, 72-82 (Monograph). SDV229071.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 130645, 8/10/1992 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Hut circle terraced into hillslope. Simple plan and rubble bank walling. Oval. Internal measurements 4.5 metres by 3.0 metres. Wall 1.6 metres wide, 0.6 metres high. Doorway survives as a gap in south-south-east wall.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 21-2, Map 44.3 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Butler's Hut 7 (4.2 by 3.5 metres diameter) is oval in shape.
One of twelve hut circles lie in an exposed position just below the Princetown Railway track. Partially explored by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee they had previously been much pulled about by stone cutters.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Visible on the aerial photography.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited 26/12/2018. This hut has peaty grass covering the entire base but walls are ok.

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

Hut circle shown to the east at SX57697308 on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8351 - Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project

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