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Summary

An excavated (1895) or possibly reused hut measuring 4.8 metres in diameter with rebuilt walls 2.5 metres wide and a maximum of 1.2 metres high. The interior of this hut lies approximately 0.5 metres below the surrounding ground level (2005 survey). This hut is attached to a boundary wall within an agglomerate enclosure. Gerrard (1993) records hut as a conjoined plan, double type hut, but shows it as a single hut on his site plan.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019876: Prehistoric settlement, three round cairns and a post-medieval rabbit warren at Legis Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 NE 69
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/4/16
• Old SAM Ref: 22289
• Pastscape: 438698

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.

Rectangular feature with a curved western end shown on 19th century map with a wall attaching it to the hut circle to the west. This feature and the adjoining wall are shown as solid lines rather than the usual dotted lines for such features.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 130832 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

22/02/1993 (SX 57046520) Hut circle terraced into hillslope, and of the conjoined plan, double orthostat and rubble bank walling type. The interior of the northern room measures 5m in diameter and is defined by a 2.6m wide double orthostat wall standing up to 1m high.
The southern room is sub-rectangular in shape, measures 6m by 4m and is defined by a 1m wide and 0.4m high rubble bank. This hut is attached to a boundary wall within an agglomerate enclosure.
NB (Although described as a conjoined-plan hut, Gerrard's plan of the site shows this as a single hut. Richards, A. F., 10/02/2020).

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 111-4, Map 49, Figure 49.1 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Hut Circle '8' of 5.2 metres diameter in a small tringular field at the junction of the small enclosure in the south-east with the main enclosure of Settlement 'A' at Legis Tor. Excavations in 1985-6 found charcoal spread all over the floor mixed with pottery, a few flints and numerous pot boilers. An unusual triangular stone implement was found partly bored through at one end and lying on a grindstone, apparently left unfinished when the hut was abandoned.

Newman, P. + Probert, S., 2005, Ringmoor Training Area: Monument Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV363484.

(15/02/2005) One of 13 hut circles within a field system on the lower south and south-west flanks of Legis Tor. All but one of the huts are contained within five irregular, adjoining enclosures to the south of the settlement. The hut circles are largely integral with the enclosure banks though several are free-standing. All the huts have level interiors unless otherwise stated. Few display obvious entrances. All diameters are internal. Described separately; see related records.
SX 5704 6521. An excavated or possibly reused hut measuring 4.8m in diameter with rebuilt walls 2.5m wide and a maximum of 1.2m high. The interior of this hut lies approximately 0.5m below the surrounding ground level.

Probert, S. A. J., 2010, A Condition Survey of the Archaeological Sites of Ringmoor, Dartmoor Training Area (Report - Survey). SDV360517.

Newman, P., 2018, Archaeological Sites within Ringmoor Training Area, Dartmoor National Park, Devon: A condition survey on behalf of Defence Infrastructure Organisation (Report - Survey). SDV361636.

Depicted on the GIS survey layer as a fair sized hut within a small court, which perhaps explains Gerrard's description.

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

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1019876 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7443 - Condition survey of archaeological sites in Ringmoor Training Area
• EDV7569 - Condition survey of Ringmoor Down training area
• EDV8227 - Ringmoor Training Area: Monument Baseline Condition Survey

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