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Summary

Hut circle of 4.5 metres by 3 metres with walls 1.5 metre wide by up to 0.7 metres high attached to the west side of a boundary wall in settlement in Tavy Cleave to the north of Standon Hill. The doorway faces south-south-east with a partly paved porch

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1007666: Stone hut circle settlement and enclosures 970m east of Ger Tor

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX58SE/23/3
• Old SAM Ref: 22355
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX58SE11

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1979, SX58SE11, SX58SE11 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV236763.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 133053 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Visited on 19th April 1993. Hut circle forming part of a stone hut circle settlement. Terraced into the hillslope and is of the straight porch plan and single orthostat walling type. Interior is oval in shape, measures 4.5 metres by 3 metres and is defined by a 1.5 metres wide wall standing up to 0.7 metres high. The doorway survives as a stone lined gap in the surrounding wall and faces south-south-east. A porch attached to this doorway measures 2.5 metres by 1.1 metres and the passageway is partly paved.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 103, Map 32, Site 6 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle at 'Tavy Cleave East' settlement.

Probert, S. + Fletcher, M. + Newman, P., 1998, The Archaeology of the MOD Willsworthy Estate: An Archaeological Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England NMR Reports for each monument Part 2 (Report - Survey). SDV360379.

Hut circle at SX55638309 of 2.6 metres diameter with wall 0.9 metres wide by 0.3 metres high attached to a boundary wall.

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

Hut circle shown on survey on the west side of a section of wall running north to south.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Visible on aerial photograph.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1007666 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7368 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area, Peter Tavy (1998)
• EDV6663 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6664 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV6665 - Survey of the Willsworthy Training Area
• EDV8141 - Condition survey of the Willsworthy Training Area

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