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Summary

Hut circle of 6.8 metres diameter with walls 0.9 metres wide by 0.5 metres high forming part of the settlement within the Kestor coaxial field system. Northern sector survives largely as a buried feature

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016691: Coaxial field system and prehistoric settlements at Kestor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NE126
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 889738
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/72/2
• Old SAM Ref: 28714

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Hut circle visible on aerial photograph.

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

(11/10/1991) Centred SX 66528712. A pair of disturbed hut circles on the gentle NW facing slope of Chagford Common 50m S of Kestorway. The NE hut at SX 66558713 survives as a levelled platform 7.4m in diameter partially enclosed by a circle of upright slabs formerly the internal facing. There is no obvious entrance. The SW hut at SX 66528711 with a diameter of 7.2m is also levelled into the hillside and still possesses most of its internal facing. There is no obvious entrance.
The S hut was previously recorded under SX 68 NE 14.
(For detailed plan see RCHME `Castor Survey' at 1:2500).

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 149106 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(01/04/1997) SX 6654 8713 Stone hut circle forming part of a prehistoric settlement within the Kestor coaxial field system. Diameter 6.8m. Single orthostat wall 0.9m wide, 0.5m high. Internal area 36.29m. Northern sector survives largely as a buried feature. Grass and gorse cover.

Probert, S. A. J., 1991, Castor Parallel System (Plan - measured). SDV229808.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 170-174, Map 36, Figure 36.1 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Northern of two hut circles at '4' of 7.7 metres diameter in the south-west corner of a field at 'Kes Tor settlement'.

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

Hut circle shown on survey.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, SD-KT 3 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(06/01/2019) Condition assessed by volunteer recorders as bad; vegetation encroachment (mainly gorse) is seriously impacting the site.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

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

Southern half of the northern of two 'Hut Circles' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England (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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