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Summary

Diameter measures 7.4 metres. Rubble and earthwork wall 1.5 metres wide, 0.5 metres high. Post medieval field wall built over the north part of the hut is 1 metre wide, up to 0.5 metres high and is composed of large granite blocks. Covered with grass and rushes.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019587: Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement south of Foggintor Quarries, 1140m ENE of Criptor
• SHINE: Earthwork and structural remains on Walkhampton Common including 19th century Swelltor and Foggintor Quarries, a section of the early 19th century Plymouth and Dartmoor Tramway, later converted to railway, also streamworks along the Yes Tor Brook

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 57 SE 133
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SE/93/2
• Old SAM Ref: 24108
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX57SE41, Hut circle 'M', 25/8/1950 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV276070.

(SX5659 7297) One of a group of 17 hut circles, given the letter 'M'. Remains of a large, double-walled type hut, diameter 9.5 metres, wall width 1.5 metres, height 0.2 - 0.5 metres. Remains are so scanty that the feature almost warrants the description 'site of'. Most of the wall has been pillaged for stone for the adjacent newtake wall. Condition poor. Impossible to say where the entrance was.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152555, 21/3/2000 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Hut circle forming part of a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement at Yes Tor Bottom, 1120 metres east-north-east of Criptor.
Diameter 7.4 metres. Rubble and earthwork wall 1.5 metres wide, 0.5 metres high. Post medieval field wall built over the north part of the hut is 1 metre wide, up to 0.5 metres high and is composed of large granite blocks. Covered with grass and rushes.

Ordnance Survey, 2017, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359962.

Depicted on the modern mapping.

Various, 2018-2019, PALs Condition Recording forms (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited 22/04/2019. SX 56581 72986. Internal measurement 6.3m Reeds & grass Condition OK Photo taken

Various, 2018-2019, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Visited 22/04/2019.Photo taken

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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