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Summary

Hut circle 'B' of 3.7 metres diameter with walls 2.5 metres wide by 0.25 metres high within settlement north-east of Cox Tor

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011441: Irregular aggregate field system, stone hut circles and post-medieval fields on the north-east slope of Cox Tor

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NW/19/7
• Old SAM Ref: 20394

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX57NW32, SX57NW32 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV226825.

Huts 'a' and 'b' are incorporated into the circuit of an irregular enclosure of circa 0.5 hectares visible as a lynchet-like scarp of varying preservation, 1 to 4.3 metres long and 0.2 to 1.1 metres high, best along its west side where patches of stone and large boulders are placed. A gap in the north-west stretch is due to the passage of a former farm track.

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

Visited on 20th November 1987. Hut circle 'B' at SX53497681. Turf-covered banks of small- medium size stone 2.5 metres wide and 0.25 metres high define a hut circle of 3.7 metres internal diameter with a level interior cut into the hillslope to 0.4 metres. There is a probable entrance gap on the east. Rig and furrow associated with the former intake has probably caused the damage visible across the southern arc of the hut wall as a band of disturbed stone. The wall of the associated enclosure abuts the north wall of the hut as a slight spread scarp 0.2 metres high.

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

Visited in 1992. Internal diameter 5.3 metres. Rubble bank wall 1.9 metres wide, 0.4 metres high. Animal poaching has occurred.

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

Hut circle on the northern boundary of Enclosure 'B' within the settlement to the north-east of Cox Tor.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Hut circle shown on survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2022, Mastermap 2022 (Cartographic). SDV364674.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 1011441 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

Within Scheduled area.

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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