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Summary

Hut circle of 6.2 metres diameter with walls 1.3 metres wide by 1 metres high in a rectangular field within Kes Tor reave system. Doorway lined on both sides faces south-west

Location

Protected Status

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

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NE129
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 889873
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/72/3
• Old SAM Ref: 28714

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Hut circle shown on 19th century map.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 149110, 1/4/1997 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Stone hut circle forming part of a prehistoric settlement within the Kestor coaxial field system. Hut measures 6.2 metres in diameter. Double and single orthostat wall 1.3 metres wide, 1 metres high. Internal area 30.17 metres. Door lined on both sides faces 220 degrees (south-west). Dense gorse on north-west wall.

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

Depicted on plan.

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

Hut circle '3' of 6.5 metres diameter is partly buried with the entrance, next to a jamb stone, blocked by a fallen slab. Located within a rectangular field to the east of the road at 'Kes Tor settlement'. Excavated in 1951-1952.

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

Centred SX 66528694. Four well-defined hut circles and one possible hut platform, numbered 1-5 in the accompanying tabulation. They lie on the moderate NW-facing slope of Chagford Common 150m ENE of Round Pound. The huts are all terraced into the slope and are constructed from massive upright slabs. They vary in internal diameter from 6.1m to 9.2m and there are no obvious entrances. Huts 1 and 2 and the platform, 5, have been robbed.
Hut 3 was excavated by Fox (Fox, 1954).
Huts 1-4 were previously recorded under SX 68 NE 14.
All the huts are slightly ovoid and the diameters are averages for each hut.
These huts form pat of the Castor Parallel Reave System, surveyed by RCHME in 1991 at 1:2500 scale.

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

Hut circle shown on survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2016, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359352.

Depicted on the modern mapping.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, SD-KT 4 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(06/01/2019) Condition assessed by volunteer recorders as good, although vegetation encroachment (mainly gorse) is impacting the site.

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

Photographs taken during January 2019 visit.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1016691 (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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