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Summary

Small hut circle 'V' of 2.2 metres diameter with walls 2 metres wide by 0.5 metres high at the south-east end of a line of prospecting pits within the extensive settlement to the north-east of Cox Tor on Petertavy Great Common

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011389: Sixteen stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on the north-east slope of Cox Tor
• SHINE: Earthworks and surviving stone walling of Bronze Age hut circle settlements and medieval or later prospecting pits on Petertavy Great Common, to north-east of Cox Tor

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NW/3/6
• Old SAM Ref: 20393
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX57NW33
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX57NW33, SX57NW33 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV228332.

Pattison, P., 1987, Settlement north-east of Cox Tor - Field Investigation (Report - Assessment). SDV241190.

Visited on 1st December 1987. Hut circle 'V' at SX53577655 situated at the south-east end of a line of mineral prospecting pits and partly overlain by spoil from them. It has an internal diameter of 2.2 metres with damaged walling of small and medium size, partly turf-covered stone spread between 1.3 and 3.4 metres wide. The interior has been cut into the slope to 0.5 metres.

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

Visited in 1992. Internal diameter 2.2 metres. Rubble bank wall 2 metres wide, 0.5 metres.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 84-85, Map 31, Figure 31.2 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Not shown within settlement north-east of Cox Tor.

Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.

Hut circle marked on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 1011389 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

Within Scheduled aarea.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8292 - Survey of the prehistoric settlements north and south of Wedlake

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