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Summary

Hut of 6.6 metres by 4.4 metres with walls 1.5 metres wide by 0.2 metres high to the north of a boundary wall within the settlement to the north-east of Cox Tor on Peter Tavy Great Common. Part of MDV4124.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011432: Stone hut circle and a short length of boundary wall forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement on the north-east slope of Cox Tor
• SHINE: Walling remains of a Bronze Age hut circle and length of boundary wall, part of a dispersed group of hut circles and settlements on Petertavy Great Common, to north-east of Cox Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57NW33
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NW/19/12
• Old SAM Ref: 20397
• Pastscape: 439818
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

National Monuments Record, 12/02/2013, 439818 (National Monuments Record Database). SDV350934.

[Part of] a group of twenty-two hut circles and associated enclosure walling, scattered along, and terreced into, a moderate slope for some 300 metres on the north-east and east side of Cox Tor.
Hut 'W'. SX 5350 7668. Hut circle, oval along the contour with internal diameter 4.4 - 6.6 metres. The feature is formed by two crescentic scarps, one cut into the slope to 0.6 metres, the other an embankment downhill 0.55 metres high, with the remaining short arcs on the north-west and south-east visible as low banks 1.5 metres wide and 0.2 metres high. The interior is level. This hut circle is almost totally turf-covered but there is a line of large boulders along the southern arc. No entrance is visible.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 129141 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Visited in 1992. Oval hut with Internal dimensions 6.6 metres by 4.4 metres. Single orthostatic wall 1.5 metres wide, 0.2 metres high. Probably originally attached to field boundary wall.

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

Hut circle at the north end of the arc of Enclosure 'C' at 'Cox Tor North-east' settlement.

Cartographic Engineering, 2006, Dartmoor 2006 1:1250 Aerial Photography (digital) (Aerial Photograph). SDV345590.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Newman, P., 2019, Prehistoric Settlements North and South of Wedlake (Supplementary survey report) (Report - Survey). SDV363726.

U-shaped feature shown on survey.

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

Oval hut shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 1011432 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

The stone hut circle is terraced into the hillslope and is composed of an orthostatic wall defining an internal area measuring 6.6 metres long by 4.4 metres wide. The huts walls are 1.5 metres wide and stand up to 0.2 metres high.

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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