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Summary

A hut circle with an internal diameter of 4.8m, and walling 1.0m wide and 0.4m high. There is an entrance on the south. An incomplete wall of single stones, 0.3m high, extends round the hut enclosing an area 30.0m by 20.0m, the south side of the enclosed area abuts on the Corringdon Ball 'reave'.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1010206: Stone hut circle on Corringdon Ball
• SHINE: Earthwork and walling remains of a Prehistoric Hut Circle on Corringdon Ball

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SXSE6623
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441818
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/107/1
• Old SAM County Ref: 522

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1948, RAF/CPE/UK/2494, 4077-4078 (Aerial Photograph). SDV147533.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX66SE23, SX66SE23 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV171076.

(13/04/1950) SX 6704 6090 Remains of a double walled hut circle with an entrance to the south-east. Fragmentary. Diameter 11m.

Robinson, R., 1978, South Brent Parish Checklist (Un-published). SDV137445.

National Monuments Record, 1980, NMR SF1743, 64-71 (Aerial Photograph). SDV161746.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1980, SX66SE23, SX66SE23 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV171077.

(10/01/1980) A ruined Type 2 (SX 56 NE 71) hut circle, with double walling of boulders and a few upright slabs, at SX 6704 6092. The internal diameter measures 8.2m and the walling is 0.4m high and 1.4m wide. The entrance is uncertain since there are gaps in the perimeter at the south east and the south west. Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD.

The Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England Aerial Photograph Unit, 1985, The Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England Aerial Photograph Project (Interpretation). SDV340940.

Large single hut circle visible on 1980 National Monuments Record aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 87-9, Map 56, Figures 56.5. & 56.6 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Hut Circle '4' of 7.0 metres diameter to the east of Settlement 'A' at 'Corringdon Ball Enclosures' is wellpreserved.

English Heritage, 2013, National Heritage List for England, 1010206 (National Heritage List for England). SDV350785.

Stone hut circle on Corringdon Ball. This stone hut circle lies some 50 metres south-west of the summit of Corringdon Ball and forms part of a concentration of occupation evidence occurring in the area. It measures 11 metres in diameter and has double faced walls, up to 1 metre in thickness and 0.3 metres in height, and an entrance to the south east.

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

Hut circle visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2020, MasterMap 2020 (Cartographic). SDV363413.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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