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Summary

Line of four huts associated with small enclosure and hut circle to the south-west and an isolated hut circle to the north-west

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 66 SW 50
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SW/88
• Pastscape: 442324

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2494, 50 (Aerial Photograph). SDV147533.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX66SW50 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV157019.

Second of two hut circles with enclosure in the Erme Valley.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 43, Map 54, Figure 54.4 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Four aligned hut circles along the slope at 'Stalldown south-east 2' with diameters between 5 metres and 7.7 metres.

Ordnance Survey, 2016, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359352.

Hut circle shown on the modern mapping. Slightly to the south of the location provided by 1977 survey.

National Monument Record, 2016, Pastscape, Accessed 16/09/2016 (Website). SDV359354.

At SX 64226157 is the remains of a Type 2 hut of internal diameter 7.0 metres with walling 1.2 metres wide and 0.4 metres high. Poor condition prevents identification of the entrance. Associated with enclosure and hut circle to the south.
Revised 1:10 000 on MSD and AM (citing Field Investigators Comments, F1 NJA, 03/08/1977).

Newman, P., 2018, Erme Valley Survey data (GIS and Excel spreadsheet) (Cartographic). SDV361913.

Row of four hut circles shown on survey.

Newman, P., 2018, The Upper Erme Valley, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: An Archaeological Survey, Appendix 1 (Report - Survey). SDV362921.

An east-west alignment of four prehistoric hut circles to the east of a small enclosure on the lower southern slopes of Stall Down; part of a large concentration of huts and enclosures spread across this location. The huts are between 13 metres and 30 metres apart and the largest may be approximately 5 metres in diameter. The site was recorded whilst beneath summer braken growth and too densely covered for precise description or measurement.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8082 - Survey of the Upper Erme Valley

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