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Summary

Hut circle of 8 metres diameter with walls 1.2 metres wide by 1.5 metres high and a doorway facing south-west in small enclosure within Kes Tor reave system. A length of boundary wall leading to the hut would have protected the doorway

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/72/6
• 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 149116, 1/4/1997 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Stone hut circle forming part of a prehistoric settlement within the Kestor coaxial field system. Hut circle measures 8 metres in diameter. Double orthostat wall 1.2 metres wide, 1.5 metres high. Internal area 50.24 metres. Door faces 225 degrees (south-west) defined by edge set orthostat on the north-west and a second orthostat lying on the left is probably not in situ. A length of boundary wall leading to the hut would have protected the doorway.

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 '5' of 8.3 metres diameter in the north-western corner of a small curvilinear plot in the north-east corner of a rectangular field at 'Kes Tor settlement'. Excavation revealed a step down on to cobbled area with a fireplace and a turf roof supported on a ring of seven wooden posts around a central upright. Some broken pottery was found along with two whetstones, flints, quartz crystals and the base of a quern stone.

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.

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

Hut circle shown on survey.

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

Visible on aerial photograph,

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

Hut is depicted on the modern mapping.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, SD-KT 6 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(06/01/2019) Condition of hut assessed by volunteer recorders as very good, only a small amount of vegetation encroachment (gorse) recorded on the south-east wall of this hut.

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

• EDV6198 - Geophysical Survey on Shovel Down and Kes Tor
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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