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Summary

Hut circle on north side of settlement to the south-west of Routrundle

Location

Protected Status

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

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/31/4

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

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

Photograph taken on 8th April 1976.

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2149, 4441-4442 (Aerial Photograph). SDV282746.

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

Visited on 28th August 1950. Hut 'D'. Robbed of stone so that only odd stones marking the former extent of the circle. Shows quite clearly as a cropmark on aerial photograph. Diameter 8.0 metres.
Visited in 1980. Three huts appear to be of Type 1 with internal diameters from 5.2 metres to 7.1 metres. Rubble walling, with a few inner facing slabs, is from 0.4 metre to 0.7 metres wide and 0.3 metres high save on the lower north-west where the build up is generally 0.5 metres. Some huts have clearly been partly stripped of stone for the nearby newtake wall.

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

Five hut circles are visible on aerial photographs.

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

Setllement with six hut circles south of Routrundle.

Cartographic Engineering, 2006, Dartmoor 2006 1:1250 Aerial Photography (digital) (Aerial Photograph). SDV345590.

Visible on aerial photograph.

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

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

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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