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Summary

Hut Circle '27a' consists of a pair of conjoined huts with the northern hut of 3.5 metres diameter with walls 0.9 metres wide by up to 0.3 metrs high and the southern hut of 4 metres diameter with walls 1.8 metres wide by up to 1.2 metres high at Watern Oke settlement. A boundary wall leads north-east from the northern structure. Excavations in 1905, within the southern building, revealed a fire-place along the northern wall, quartz, pieces of spar, small cooking stones, and 'rubbers'. The northern building has not previously been recorded.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011559: Sixty stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58SE/16/64
• Old SAM County Ref: 488
• Old SAM Ref: 20354(P)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Anderson, I. K., 1906, 11th Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, 101-113 (Article in Serial). SDV337055.

One of a group of about 94 hut circles at Watern Oke. Hut 27a (internal diameter 3.66m) is well shaped; probable entrance on south, a large fireplace was at the north. Not paved; quartz, pieces of spar, small cooking stones and rubbers were found.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX58SE9 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV232751.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 123866 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(1992) SX 56458350 Hut circle terraced into the hillslope. Includes two conjoined hut circles and is composed of coursed stone walls. Interior of northern structure measures 3.5m in diameter and is defined by a 0.9m wide wall standing up to 0.3m high. The second structure measures 4m in diameter and is defined by a 1.8m wide wall standing up to 1.2m high. The doorway faces south-east and is blocked. A boundary wall leads north-east from the northern structure. Excavations by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1905, within the southern building, revealed a fire-place along the northern wall, quartz, pieces of spar, small cooking stones, and 'rubbers'. The northern building has not previously been recorded.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 101-102 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Two conjoined hut circles at 'Watern Oke West settlement'. The northern hut are the slight remains of Hut '4' and a boundary runs north-east from this hut.

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

Hut circles shown on survey.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015 onwards, 2015 onward Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV362959.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8679 - Okehampton Range: Management Survey
• EDV8291 - Okehampton Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
• EDV8695 - Survey of Okehampton North Dartmoor Military Range

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