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Summary

Hut circle in unenclosed settlement. Diameter 4.0 metres. Single orthostat wall 1.3 metres wide, 0.6 metres high. A 140 degree facing gap may represent a doorway. The possible doorway therefore faces upslope. Grass, bilberry and gorse.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018927: Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on Walkhampton Common, 1000m north east of Leeden Tor

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/46
• Old SAM County Ref: 937
• Old SAM Ref: 28729

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Group of seven 'Hut Circles' shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1951, SX57SE29, (24/8/1950) (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV216331.

Hut E (SX5710 7248; same grid reference as given for Hut D, which was not located). Two small patches of rock 5.0 metres apart, might possibly represent the remains of a hut circle wall but it is impossible to say with certainty.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152054, 19/1/1998 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Stone hut circle forming part of an unenclosed prehistoric settlement on Walkhampton Common lying 1050 metres south-west of Devil's Bridge.
Diameter 4.0 metres. Single orthostat wall 1.3 metres wide, 0.6 metres high. A 140 degree facing gap may represent a doorway. The possible doorway therefore faces upslope. Grass, bilberry and gorse.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 22, Map 44, Figure 44.5 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Small hut circle to the east of the dry leat at 'Walkhampton Common North 3' unenclosed settlement.

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

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

Visited 28/01/2019 Walls covered in gorse but overall condition good

Ordnance Survey, 2019, MasterMap 2019 (Cartographic). SDV362729.

Depicted on the 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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