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Summary

One of a group of over 20 hut circles within prehistoric settlement south of Leeden Tor

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1008671: An unenclosed stone hut circle settlement, an irregular aggregate field system, a length of reave and an enclosure on the south east slope of Leeden Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SE92
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/9
• Old SAM Ref: 22265
• Pastscape: 440288

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.

National Monument Record, 1976, SX5671 (Aerial Photograph). SDV268537.

Ordnance Survey, 1982, Ordnance Survey Drawing (Cartographic). SDV272764.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 36-7, Map 45, Figure 45.1 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Hut circle shown within Settlement 'C' at Leeden Tor South.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

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

Visited 29/04/2019. Poor condition with already noted hollowed out area. Walls were obvious. Photo taken

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Visited 29/04/2019 Photo taken

National Monuments Record, 2020, Pastscape, 440288, SX57SE92 (Website). SDV363416.

Site visited on 25th August 1950, One of a group of hut circles and enclosures. Hut 'C' at (SX 5649 7108 of diameter 4.0 metres, wall height 0.2 metres. Hollowed by recent digging to a depth of 0.6 metres. Stones so disturbed that it resembles a cairn-like form. No obvious entrance. Condition poor.
Field Investigation on 4th August 1980. Centred at SX 56437103 is a settlement of twenty-five huts covering
.1 hectares of a south and east hillslope at about 361 metres O.D. The area
is broken up by erosion runnels, quantities of surface clitter which
thins out towards the south and east, and small surface quarries
and military slit trenches.

The huts are mostf Type 2 with levelled interiors
whose diameters range frm 2 .0 metres to 5.2 metres.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1008671 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

This monument includes an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement comprising 31 stone hut circles in an irregular aggregate field system.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8351 - Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project

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