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Summary

A disturbed hut circle on the steep east flank of Conies Down, 250 metres east-north-east of the tor.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork and walling remains of an unenclosed Bronze Age hut circle settlement north-east of Conies Down Tor, comprising eight hut circles, a Bronze Age cairn and fragmentary enclosure and a post Medieval Tinner's cache
• Scheduled Monument 1012572: Stone hut circle 635m south-west of Beardown Man forming part of a dispersed settlement on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 57 NE 105
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NE/122/6
• Old SAM Ref: 22258
• Pastscape: 1065412
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., 21/4/1992 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Hut circle at SX59127923. Internal diameter 3.4 metres. Coursed wall 1.0 metre wide, 0.6 metres high.

Newman, P., 2004, Merrivale Range Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV346874.

Merrivale Range Baseline Condition Survey visit. As described in 1994. All stones are earthfast and the feature is well protected by turf.

Newman , P., 2018, Archaeological Sites within Merrivale Training Area, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: A condition survey on behalf of Defence Infrastructure Organisation (Report - Survey). SDV361635.

A disturbed hut circle on the steep east flank of Conies Down, 250 metres east-north-east of the tor.

Ordnance Survey, 2018, MasterMap 2018 (Cartographic). SDV360652.

Depicted on the modern mapping.

National Monument Record, 2018, Pastscape, 1994 data (Website). SDV360651.

SX 59147919. A disturbed hut circle on the steep east flank of Conies Down, 250 metres east-north-east of Conies Down Tor. The hut measures 2.5 metres (north-south) by 3.4 metres internally with walls formed of upright slabs and boulders, 1.2 metres wide and 0.4 metres high. The south-east quadrant has been partially destroyed and there is no obvious entrance.
Several other hut circles (SX 57 NE 103, 104, 108, 109 and 110) and a cairn (SX 57 NE 106) lie within a 250 metres radius of this feature on the same slope (citing Probert, S. A. J., 19/09/1994, Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments in England Field Investigation).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7441 - Condition survey of the archaeological sites of Merrivale Training Area
• EDV7570 - Condition survey of Merrivale Range training area

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