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Summary

A 5 metre square structure with walls 1.2 metres wide by 0.9 metres high attached to a reave in the north-west corner of a long narrow field within the Kes Tor coaxial field system. This may have originally have been a hut circle

Location

Protected Status

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

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NE137
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 901249
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/103/1
• Old SAM County Ref: 61
• Old SAM Ref: 28714

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• BUILDING? (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

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

(11/10/1991) SX 6656 8647. A single hut circle situated in the corner of a long rectangular enclosure 180m north of Castor Rock. It is square in plan with upright slab walls 5.1m long. The site is terraced and there is no obvious entrance.
This hut and associated enclosure lie within the Castor Parallel Reave System. Hut formerly recorded under SX 68 NE 14.
(See RCHME 1991 'Castor Survey' at 1:2500 scale).

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 149141 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(02/04/1997) SX 6655 8645 A square structure attached to a reave within the Kestor coaxial field system. Measures 5m by 5m. Double orthostat and rubble wall 1.2m wide, 0.9m high. A square structure butting the reaves. Composed of large rocks. Probably of historic date although it may originally have been a hut which has seen some alterations.

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.

Hut circle '17' of 4.5 metres diameter in the north-west corner of a long narrow field within the 'Kes Tor settlement'.

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.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, SD-KT 17 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(21/01/2019) Condition of hut assessed by volunteer recorder as very good, slight damage from human intervention recorded.

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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