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Summary

Hut circle 'C' of 6.0 metres diameter with walls 0.8 metres wide by up to 0.5 metres high within settlement east of Nodden Gate

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1008656: Stone hut circle 610m ESE of Nodden Gate forming an outlying part of a stone hut circle settlement

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58NW/9/3
• Old SAM County Ref: 18
• Old SAM Ref: 24074

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

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

One of the 'Hut Circles' shown on 19th century Map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1974, SX58NW15, 15/10/1974 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV236238.

Hut C.
Measures 8 metres by 7 metres, walls 0.5 metres high, partition 4.03 metres long. One of 11 hut circles, single walled type, not circular, with greatest diameter east-west. Partitioned in centre by interior wall running north. Generally much despoiled; entrance not obvious.

Robinson, R., 1986, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1986 (Un-published). SDV345664.

Site visited on 6/3/1986.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 133146, 26/4/1993 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Hut circle on the (south-west?) south-eastern edge of a settlement. Hooked porch and single orthostat walling type. Interior measures 6 metres in diameter and is defined by a 0.8 metre wide wall standing up to 0.5 metres high. Doorway survives as a gap in the surrounding wall, faces w and is protected from the prevailing wind by a porch.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 218, Map 43 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle within Settlement '3' to the west of Arms Tor.

GetMapping PLC, 2015, 2015 Colour Aerial Photography (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV359717.

Arc of stones forming the southern curve of this hut are visible.

Bray, L. + Crabb, A., 2017, HER Field Updates (Cartographic). SDV361914.

Hut circle plotted during site visit November 2017.

Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.

One of the 'Hut Circles' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 108638 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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