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Summary

Large hut circle or pen on east side of settlement south-west of Routrundle

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019565: Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 370m south west of Routrundle

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57SE54
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/31/1
• Old SAM Ref: 28781

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

National Monument Record, 18/04/1976, SX5571, 1/401 (Aerial Photograph). SDV272302.

Photograph taken on 8th April 1976.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1980, SX57SE54, SX57SE54 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV239032.

Site visited on 28th August 1950. Hut 'A'. Very large, double walled type, composed of turf and bracken covered stones. Condition fair, entrance on south side. Diameter 12.5 metres, wall width 1.5 metres, heigt 0.4 metres.

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

Five hut circles are visible and recorded.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152394 & 152396 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Visited in 1992 and 1999. At SX55267138. Stone hut circle forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 380 metres south of Routrundle.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 43, Map 45 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Large structure of circa 11.0 metres diameter which may have been a simple enclosure rather than a roofed building.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

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

Large hut circle shown on modern mapping with an entrance to the west. A short section of walling is shown on the south side of the entrance.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1019565 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

The monument includes an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement situated on a gentle west facing slope overlooking the valley of the River Walkham. The settlement includes six stone hut circles arranged in an oval around a central area. The stone hut circles survive as banks each surrounding a circular or oval internal area of between 23 square metres and 88 square metres. The heights of the surrounding walls vary between 0.4 metres and 0.85 metres. Five of the huts have visible doorways and two are attached to each other by a short length of rubble walling.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8351 - Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project

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