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Summary

Eastern of two isolated hut circles on the north side of the Hentor Brook of 3.6 metres by 4.3 metres with walls 1.3 metres wide and 0.6 metres high

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1012083: Stone hut circle north of Hentor Brook

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56NE81
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 438732
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/173/3
• Old SAM Ref Revised: 28792
• Old SAM Ref: 10660

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Eastern of two 'Hut Circles' shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1979, SX56NE81, Hut C (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV163217.

(02/06/1950) SX 5899 6516 Hut C. One of seven huts recorded which have average diameters of 5.5m, height 0.3m. No obvious entrance.
(29/01/1979) Along the banks of Hentor Brook from 356.0m to 370.0m OD are eight Type 1 huts and two Type 2 huts. The internal diameters of 3.3m and walling of 1.3m width and 0.7m height. All have southern entrances and levelled interiors and the majority are in poor condition. The Type 2 huts are at SX 58946517 and SX 59076518; the latter has a windbreak and the hut at SX 59006524 has two orthostats marking its entrance. Fragments of walling are visible in places in the boggy area around the huts suggesting a possible enclosure or the remains of fields.
(Type sites 1: SX 56 SE 19, 2: SX 56 NE 71).
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 122-3, Map 49, figure 49.8 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Hut circle shown on the north side of Hen Tor Brook to the west of Enclosure 'B'.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 139/ 102.508 (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

(22/03/2002) Centred SX 5898 6521. A cluster of six unenclosed hut circles lie in open moorland some 400 metres south of Hentor House. With one exception (Butler's 'cairn'; MDV48946) the huts lie on the right bank of Hentor Brook. Most of the huts are poorly preserved, now existing as crude circles of upright stones but all are terraced into the gentle north-west facing slope to provide level interiors. One hut is adjoined by a short length of contemporary walling.
SX 5899 6517. Measuring 3.6m north to south by 4.3m this hut has walls 1.3m wide and 0.6m high.

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

Hut shown on survey.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UPHT-29 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(06/02/2020) Condition of hut assessed as good, although vegetation is having an impact on this feature. Close to Hen Tor Brook, this hut comprises low height stones forming a circle, largely moss covered. The area is lightly grazed, low level scattered clumps of bracken, one small clump of reeds in circle.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Photographs taken during February 2020 visit.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1012083 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

This stone hut circle lies close to the north bank of Hentor Brook and is 9 metres in diameter with walls up to 2 metres in thickness and 0.5 metres in height. It has an entrance to the north-east. There are other hut circles and enclosures in the vicinity.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey

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