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Summary

Hut circle to east of Langcombe Brook of 2.5 metres diameter with walls of 0.7 metres wide by 0.5 metres high. Previously described as a cairn by Grinsell (1978) and Gerrard (1996) of 6.5 metres diameter by 0.6 metres high

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016145: A prehistoric settlement with cairns and a historic tin mill, streamwork and buildings lying adjacent to the Langcombe Brook

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66NW44
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441692
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66NW/47
• Old SAM County Ref: 505
• Old SAM Ref: 28787

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• (Former Type) CAIRN (Constructed, Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
• HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1978, SX66NW44 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV153905.

(17/05/1950) A very mutilated cairn with a diameter of 6.5 metres, height 0.6 metres. Turf covered.
(09/09/1978) This is not a cairn but a hut circle, the remains of a settlement of which two other huts are recorded on SX 66 NW 41. The hut has been levelled into a slight north west slope at 370m OD. The internal diameter is 2.5m and the walling, partly coursed is 0.7m thick and up to 0.5m high. The entrance is not discernible and the south east quadrant has been destroyed probably as a result of the adjacent tin streaming operations.
Surveyed at 1:10000 on PFD.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 162 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Visited on 18th September 1974. One of three cairns west of Deadman's Bottom. This has a hollow towards the centre, diameter 6.0 metres height 0.6 metres.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Not visible on RAF 1946/7 aerial photographs.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140540b (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

[MPP 140540B] (09/05/1996) At SX 6059 6685. Round cairn. Diameter 6.5m, height 0.6m. Robbed.

Robertson, J. G., 1991, The Archaeology of the Upper Plym (Post-Graduate Thesis). SDV166324.

One of five features depicted and described by Robertson.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 148. Map 50 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Two or three hut circles with traces of an enclosure wall were sited close to the bank below Deadmans Bottom in Langcombe valley.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 102.1173c. (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

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

(13/02/2002) Centred SX 60596687. The remains of four hut circles (one previously recorded as SX 66 NW 44), a ruinous rectangular structure and the truncated remains of an associated sub-divided enclosure. These features lie immediately outside the streamworks flanking the right bank of Langcombe Brook and may have formed part of a more extensive settlement since disturbed by industrial activity.
The hut circles are all terraced into the foot of the steep SW facing slope and are generally in poor condition.
SX 60616686. Hut circle badly disturbed by track. 3.1m in diameter.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

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

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