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Summary

A Bronze Age hut circle above Cowsic River measuring 3.5m by 2.8m with upright slabs surviving to a height of 0.6m. There is no obvious entrance.

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 1012569: Stone hut circle 530m 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: SX57NE109
• National Monuments Record: SX57NE69
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1065425
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 965519
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NE/124
• Old SAM Ref: 22256

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 SX59127936. Internal diameter 3.5 metres. Rubble bank wall 1.2 metres wide, 0.6 metres high. South wall comprises large earthfast boulder. Doorway to north-east.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1993-1998, Dartmoor Royal Forest Project (Report - Survey). SDV346608.

(19/09/1994) SX 59137937. A hut circle located on a steep east-facing slope above the right bank of the Cowsic River, some 350 metres north-east of Conies Down Tor. The sloping interior of the hut measures 3.5 metres (north-south) by 2.8 metres and is enclosed by a crude circle of upright and leaning slabs standing to a maximum of 0.6 metres high. The front (east) wall has apparently collapsed down the slope and all that now survives is a slight stony rim. There is no obvious entrance.
Several other hut circles (SX 57 NE 103, 104, 105, 108 and 110) and a cairn (SX 57 NE 106) lie within a 250 metres radius of this feature on the same slope.

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

(10/08/2004) As described in 1994. Hut is in an area of short grass and is in a stable condition.

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 hut circle located on a steep western slope of the Cowsic River.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Scheduled. NB: polygon for this (and all of features in the group) are inaccurate; they lie around 40-50m north-north-west of actual feature locations. This has contributed to duplicate records in the NRHE; correctly linked to features here, based on the 2018 survey information (Richards, A. F., 24/08/2021).

Historic England, 2021-2022, NRHE to HER website, Accessed 24/08/2021 (Website). SDV364039.

(02/08/1993) SX59127941 A stone hut circle was recorded at this location on the lower east facing slope of Conies Down Tor. The hut circle is probably Bronze Age in date (English Heritage Record Form).

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
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8713 - Merrivale Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey

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