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Summary

Diameter 6m. Double orthostat wall 2m wide, 0.8m high. The doorway faces 188 degrees and is lined on west. The eastern door jamb has fallen into the hut. Butted by field wall. One of the most visually impressive huts on Riddon Ridge.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018930: Two irregular aggregate field systems with associated settlements, part of a coaxial field system, boundary stones and historic fields on Riddon Ridge
• SHINE: Earthworks and stone walling remains of an extensive Bronze Age field system, reaves, enclosures, cairns and hut circle settlements on Riddon Ridge overlain with a medieval field system and associated enclosures and Whiteslade post-medieval farmstead

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NE12
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442458
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NE/8
• Old SAM Ref: 28733

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, 2460-1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

Royal Air Force, 1964, RAF 58/6399, F62, 026-27 (Aerial Photograph). SDV225229.

National Monument Record, 1977, SX6676/4, 98-103 (Aerial Photograph). SDV246734.

National Monuments Record, 1977, SX6676/5, 107-109 (Aerial Photograph). SDV230338.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX67NE12 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV246640.

(20/10/1977) The hut circle appears to lie upon the field banks and its better condition suggests it might be the remains of a sheep pen.

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

This hut circle seems to provide a focus for a number of banks in the centre of field system SX67NE/245. It is visible on RAF 1946 and NMR 1977 aerial photographs.

Griffith, F. M., 1985, DAP/EN, 3, 3a (Aerial Photograph). SDV346962.

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

(27/08/1992) Centred SX 66097690. Eight hut circles and two other possible structures within a contemporary field system (SX 67 NE 10) on the gentle western flank of Riddon Ridge 600m north of Whiteslade House. Two of the huts (5) and (7) are well-preserved and comprise double rings of upright slabs while the remainder have suffered varying degrees of disturbance and robbing. Entrances, where apparent, are in the southern quadrant. Each hut is associated with a small enclosure of between 0.06ha and 0.1ha. Beyond this are larger enclosures of up to 1.1ha. The huts are regularly spaced and with their immediate fields occupy an area of 14ha. Field walls join this settlement with others to the north-west (SX 67 NE 10) and south (SX 67 NE 23). There is no ground evidence to suggest that this hut at SX 66107682 overlies the field banks as suggested by the Ordnance Survey (1977). This settlement and field system while obviously of more than one phase probably belongs to a single period. For detailed 1:2500 plan see RCHME Riddon Ridge survey. A further table of information on the settlement is held in the archive.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152097 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(17/03/1999) Stone hut circle forming part of a prehistoric settlement situated within an irregular aggregate field system on Riddon Ridge.
Diameter 6m. Double orthostat wall 2m wide, 0.8m high. The doorway faces 188 degrees and is lined on west. The eastern door jamb has fallen into the hut. Butted by field wall. One of the most visually impressive huts on Riddon Ridge.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8296 - Dartmeet Premier Archaeological Landscape (PAL) Field Investigation Project
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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