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Summary

Hut circle forming part of a hut settlement. Diameter 6.3 metres. Wall 1.7 metres wide, 1.0 metre high. Internal area 31.15 metres. Doorway faces 215 degrees (south-south-west). The east-south-east jamb has collapsed into the passage and the west-north-west jamb is leaning slightly into the passage. Two edge set stones from the west-north-west side of the door may represent the remnants of a straight porch (1997 survey data).

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: SX 68 NE 53.6.
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/88/15
• Old SAM Ref: 28663
• Pastscape: 888854

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 143980, 1997 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Visited 1997 (SX 6522 8601) Hut circle forming part of a hut settlement. Diameter 6.3 metres. Wall 1.7 metres wide, 1.0 metre high. Internal area 31.15 metres. Doorway faces 215 degrees (south-south-west). The east-south-east jamb has collapsed into the passage and the west-north-west jamb is leaning slightly into the passage. Two edge set stones from the west-north-west side of the door may represent the remnants of a straight porch.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 184-86, Map 37.1 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Depicted by Butler on map (hut 4). The jambs still stand in the poorway of this hut (6.0 metres in diameter) and are exceptionally large.

Probert, S. A. J., 1991, Shovel Down Survey (Report - Survey). SDV359365.

(16/08/1991) Centred SX 652859. A settlement of 6.5 hectares containing at least nineteen hut circles and traces of two other structures is situated on the moderate west and north-west flanks of Shovel Down. This settlement lies within and appears to be contemporary with a well-developed parallel reave system (SX 68 NW 24).
The vast majority of the huts are ovoid and where discernible, entrances generally lie in the south. Some of the huts are intimately associated with smaller enclosures within the larger reave pattern. Unlike the neighbouring settlements SX 68 NE 13 and 41 there is no evidence to suggest that these huts or their associated enclosures pre-date the construction of the reaves. An additional table of information on the hut circles is held in the archive (see Pastscape notation).

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

Hut clearly visible on the aerial photography.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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