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Summary

Double walled hut circle, 5.6 metres internal diameter, with a south-east facing entrance. Considerable field clearance appears to have taken place at some time and it is likely that there were other huts in the vicinity.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Structural remains of a Bronze Age hut circle south-west of the dismantled railway on Walkhampton Common

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SE51
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 440173
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/23

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2149, 4441-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDV282746.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX57SE51 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV271789.

(28/08/1950) Solitary hut circle of double walled type, composed of turf-covered stones. Entrance in south-east side. Diameter 7.0 metres, wall 1.5 metres wide, 0.5 metres high. In fair condition.

Royal Air Force, 1964, F62/58/6399, 44-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDV272301.

SX 55317196 A hut circle of double walled type diameter 7.0m, with a south east entrance.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1980, SX57SE51 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV276087.

(26/06/1980) At SX 55307195 there is a Type 2 hut circle (SX 56 NE 71) on a slight south-west slope within an area of bracken-covered moorland.
It has an internal diameter of 5.6m. with a levelled interior and double walling 0.9m. wide and 0.5m. high. There is an entrance gap in the south-east.
A few widely scattered rickles of stone from 5.0m. to 20.0m. long represent the vestiges of a field system of uncertain extent and character. At some time there has been considerable clearance, with stones heaped beside the newtake wall, and it is probable that there were further huts in the area.
Hut surveyed at 1:2500 for record purposes and at 1:10000 on MSD (see illustration SX 57 SE 52) (3)

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

Visible on RAF aerial photos. Recorded.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 42, Map 45 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Hut circle of 6.0 metres diameter on the open common to the north of the Routrundle enclosures.

Ordnance Survey, 2014, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV355681.

Hut circle marked.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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