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Summary

Hut Circle '18' of 7.0 metres diameter with walls 2.1 metres wide by 1.1 metres high within the large settlement on Throwleigh Common

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018916: Coaxial field system, associated and later remains at Throwleigh Common and Kennon Hill

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 69 SE 11
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX69SE/26/14
• Old SAM Ref: 28694
• Pastscape: 444068

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 148945, 10/4/1997 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

At SX65739072. Stone hut circle forming part of a prehistoric settlement within a coaxial field system on Throwleigh Common.
Diameter 7.0 metres. Single orthostat wall 2.1 metres wide, 1.1 metres high. Internal area measures 38.46 metres. Only the western arc is visible. Remainder survives as buried feature.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 196-8, Map 39, Figure 39.1 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle '8' originally of 9 metres diameter but it is described as consisting of just an arc of stones in the centre of a recatngular enclosure at 'Throwleigh Common settlement'.

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

Hut circle shown on survey.

Newman, P., 2007, Throwleigh Common, Throwleigh, Devon. A 'Premier Archaeological Landscape' within Dartmoor National Park Level 2 Survey Report, 9, figure (Report - Survey). SDV360261.

Hut 18 SX 6575 9073
The hut is terraced into the slope with a 0.6 metre scarp on the western side and has a diameter of 5.5 metres. Some stones of the walls appear to be in situ but on the whole the hut has little fabric surviving suggesting that stone may have been robbed.

Dartmoor National Park Authority, 2017, Site visits to Throwleigh Common (Personal Comment). SDV360253.

Site visited 4/07/2017. Plotted using GPS (SX65757 90733). Area is densely vegetated and highly overgrown. Difficult to gain access to centre of circle.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1018916 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7297 - Survey of Throwleigh Common Premier Archaeological Landscape

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