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Summary

Possible hut circle within settlement at Bellever Tor. Diameter 5.7 metres with walls 1.3 metres thick. Not included in 1955 report. New discovery?

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018512: A prehistoric settlement with enclosures, an irregular aggregate field system and cairn north of Bellever Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NW39
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/55
• Old SAM Ref: 28689
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX67NW69

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Prowse, A. B., 1891, The Ancient Metropolis of Dartmoor, 312 (Article in Serial). SDV245176.

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs, 1890 2463-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Photograph taken on 10th December 1946.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1951/1979, SX67NW39, SX67NW39 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV262762.

Hut 9.

Turner, J. R., 1976, Ancient Monuments on Forestry Commission Land. Fernworthy and Bellever (Report - non-specific). SDV351823.

Visited in April 1976. Seventeen trees standing inside hut and on stone walls Seven posts ringing clearance zone.. Trees outside post ring are within falling distanc of hut. Hut circle entrance on south-east side with both porch stones. Not investigated, has been planted over.

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, SX67NW69, SX67NW69 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV233320.

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

Hut circle within centre of agglomerated enclosure and within woodland just planted in 1945. Visible on 1946 aerial photograph.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 144274 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Visited on 8th July 1997. Stone hut circle forming part of a prehistoric stone hut circle settlement north of Bellever Tor.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1992, Bellever, Hut 9 (Report - Survey). SDV248251.

RCHME, 1992, Hut circle Bellever Tor (Report - Survey). SDV247276.

Visited on 17th September 1992. Hut circle diameter 6 metres . Wall 1.6 metres wide by 0.5 metres high. Entrance to the south-east 1.1 metres wide. Well preserved with good inner facing stone around north-east. Associated with enclosures 'e' and 'f' .

ADAS, 1995, Hut circles Bellever Tor (Report - Survey). SDV247277.

Visited on 14th February 1995 and reported as stable.

Dartmoor National Park Authority, unknown, Bellever Tor (Report - non-specific). SDV247272.

Hut-circle. Diameter 5.7 metres; wall 1.3 metres thick. Not included in 1955 Spooner/Dixon report. New discovery. Site Number 7c in Bellever Plantation, Bellever Tor settlement (with sketch map) in Dartmoor National Park field report.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

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
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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