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Summary

The largest and best preserved hut circle in this group. It is 6.3m internal diameter and is levelled into the slope to a depth of 0.6m. The front scarp is 0.4m high and the wall of boulder and stone construction with some inner and outer facing slabs is 2.1m wide and up to 0.6m high. Notably part of the wall on the downhill side is coursed with moorland slabs and the entrance is in the north side. Two enclosure walls are linked to the south side. This could, as Ralegh-Radford has suggested, be a round hut of later origin.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1007865: Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement, associated fields and a length of the Great Western Reave 500m south of Wedlake Farm

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NW/57/11
• Old SAM Ref: 20389

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit, fletcher, m. J. (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(02/12/1987) Hut 11. SX 53967701. The largest and best preserved hut circle in this group. It is 6.3m internal diameter and is levelled into the slope to a depth of 0.6m. The front scarp is 0.4m high and the wall of boulder and stone construction with some inner and outer facing slabs is 2.1m wide and up to 0.6m high. Notably part of the wall on the downhill side is coursed with moorland slabs and the entrance is in the north side. Two enclosure walls are linked to the south side. This could, as Ralegh-Radford has suggested, be a round hut of later origin.

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

(February 1992) Internal diameter measures 6/3m. Double orthostat wall 2/1m wide, 0.6m high. Doorway to north. Attached to a boundary wall. This is the largest and best preserved hut in the settlement, and Ralegh Radford suggests it is later date than the others.

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

Hut circle visible on aerial photograph.

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

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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