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Summary

Southern of two hut cirlces of 6.6 metres diameter with walls 1.3 metres wide by 0.4 metres high within the western part of the settlement on Shovel Down

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1017874: The North Teign coaxial field system (western part) and associated later remains at Shovel Down, Stonetor Hill and Long Ridge

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NE13
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443515
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/173/1
• Old SAM Ref: 28663

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1974, SX68NE13 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV227572.

(17/07/1974) Double-walled hut circle 6.0 metres internal diameter and 0.6 metre high wall with an entrance to the east. Both (also MDV28612) may have become isolated by stone stripping and only a few rickles of field walls survive in the vicinity. Surveyed at 1:2500.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit, S. Probert (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(16/08/1991) Centred at SX 6549 8576. Two hut circles (see also MDV28612) and several field boundaries lie in an area of former peat cutting above the west flank of Shovel Down. Both huts are slightly ovoid and only one possesses a discernible entrance.
Two distinct types of field walls are visible in the immediate area of the two huts. The most obvious are the long straight reaves of the Shovel Down reave system. The others are of a more haphazard nature and adjoin the reaves. As with the settlement it seems likely that the latter represent a period of less regulated enclosure pre-dating the reaves expanded to conform with the later system. There is no evidence to indicate which phase the hut circles belong.
See Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments in England survey 'Shovel Down' at 1:2500 scale. A further table of information on the hut circles is held in the NRHE archive.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 143965, 1997 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(SX 6550 8573) Hut circle forming part of small settlement. Diameter 6.6 metres. Wall 1.3 metres wide, 0.4 metres high. Internal area 34.19 square metres. Door to east-south-east, lined on north-north-east side.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 175-176, Map 36, Figure 35.4 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Southern of two hut cirles of 7.0 metres diameter to the west of a rectangular enclosure in area 'C' at the western end of the 'Shovel Down central enclosures'.

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

Hut circle shown on survey.

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

Hut is visible on the aerial photograph at the location given by the 1991 survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1017874 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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