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Summary

One of a pair four of sub-rectangular structures located with four hut circles on Lee Moor. Previously identified as a hut circle, this is a second sub-rectangular building measuring 3.3 metres north-south by 1.8 metres with an entrance in the north-eastern corner. The enclosing walls are 1.2 metres wide and 0.4 metres high.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018356: Stone hut circle settlement 600m ENE of Great Trowlesworthy Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 SE 2
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/394/6
• Old SAM Ref: 24119
• Pastscape: 439109

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• (Alternate Type) HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)
• BUILDING (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 133400, 18/5/1994 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(SX 5848 6459) stone hut circle is situated immediately south-west of an agglomerate enclosure. Terraced into the hillslope. Simple plan and rubble bank walling type. Interior is oval in shape, 3 metres by 1.9 metres and defined by a 1.1 metre wide wall standing up to 0.4 metres high. An east-south-east facing gap in the surrounding wall may represent an original doorway.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 162-3, Map 51, Figure 51.6 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Hut Circle '4' is one of a group of unenclosed hut circles between two enclosures within Settlement 'B' at Upper Spanish Lake. It is an oval double hut circle of 3.4 metres by 2.0 metres,

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

One of a pair four of sub-rectangular structures located with four hut circles on Lee Moor.
SX 58486459. A second sub-rectangular building measuring 3.3 metres north-south by 1.8 metres with an entrance in the north-eastern corner. The enclosing walls are 1.2 metres wide and 0.4 metres high. The form of these structures suggests two phases/periods of occupation, the sub-rectangular buildings following and perhaps reoccupying the sites of the more conventional hut circles

English Heritage, 2005, Survey Information (miscellaneous date) (Report - Survey). SDV345855.

Shown as a rectangular feature on survey.

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

Visible on aeial photograph.

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

Hut circle shown on modern mapping

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1018356 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

Within Scheduled area.

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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