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Summary

Hut Circle with diameter 4.4 metres, double and single orthostat wall 1.6 metres wide, 0.4 metres high. A 192 degree facing gap may represent a door.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018511: Two cairns with two cists and a stone hut circle on the east facing slope of Lakehead Hill forming part of a ritual complex

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NW36
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442611
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/30
• Old SAM County Ref: 888
• Old SAM Ref: 28688.3

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Baring Gould, S., 1896, Third Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, 183 (Article in Serial). SDV260468.

A hut circle was examined in 1895/6 when finds included charcoal, three flint flakes and "a broken pottery vessel, like those found at Legis Tor and Raddick Hill" (illustrated in the same report - Neolithic/Bronze Age)

Royal Air Force, 1951, RAF/540/483, 3046-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDV224087.

Dartmoor National Park Authority + Forestry Commission + Dartmoor Preservation Association, 1976, Conservation of Ancient Monuments. The Report of a Working Party (Report - non-specific). SDV248248.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX67NW36 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV264794.

(19/11/1979) On the south slope of Lakehead Hill in Bellever Plantation at 408m. O.D. is the remains of a hut circle measuring about 4.8m. in diameter internally, possibly of Type 2 (SX 56 NE 71) with double walling 0.9m. thick and 0.3m. high. There is no discernible entrance. See ground photograph.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on M.S.D.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

The area of the woodland left clear for the hut circle is visible, but not the hut circle itself on RAF 1951 aerial photograph.

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

(22/11/1993) SX 64597729. An isolated hut circle, sited in an almost level position on Lakehead Hill, within a forest clearing. It consists of an approximately circular earth and stone bank. The internal diameters are 4.4m by 5m and the bank is up to 2m thick by 0.4m high. Covered by moss and loam.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140582, 8/7/1997 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

A stone hut circle on the east slope of Lakehead Hill. Diameter 4.4 metres. Double and single orthostat wall 1.6 metres wide, 0.4 metres high. A 192 degree facing gap may represent a door.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 44, Map 27 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle may be the one excavated in 1896 in which charcoal, three flints and some pottery sherds were found.

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

Hut circle shown on survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2022, Mastermap 2022 (Cartographic). SDV364674.

'Hut Circle' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 1018511 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

The stone hut circle survives as a 4.4 etresm diameter circular area surrounded by a 1.6 metres wide orthostatic wall standing up to 0.4 metres high. A south facing gap in the surrounding wall may represent a doorway. This building was partly excavated by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1896, and amongst the finds were charcoal, three flint flakes and Bronze Age pottery sherds.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds

• FDV5875 - FLAKE (Prehistoric - 698000 BC to 42 AD)
• FDV5876 - VESSEL (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Events

• EDV7388 - Archaeological condition survey in Bellever Woods
• EDV7406 - Archaeological condition survey in Bellever Woods
• EDV7431 - Woodland Survey (1989-90) at Bellever, Soussons and other woodland parcels
• EDV8498 - Excavation of hut south of Lakehead Hill
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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