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Summary

The hut lies in the middle of an access track and has been surrounded by Forestry Commission antiquity markers. It has been severely damaged and consists of a boggy, levelled platform 2.3m in diameter surrounded by a rough circle of disturbed stones. There is no trace of an entrance.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NE215
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 890950
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NE/35

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, 2462-2463 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

Dartmoor National Park Authority + Forestry Commission + Dartmoor Preservation Association, 1976, Conservation of Ancient Monuments. The Report of a Working Party, Site No. 4d (Report - non-specific). SDV248248.

SX 652 762 Hut-circles and enclosure wall. Not included in 1955 Spooner/Dixon report. New site. Site No. 4d in Bellever Plantation, Laughter Tor (with sketch map) in DNP field report.
(1976) possible settlements. More identification work to be carried out in this area.

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

This is possibly a hut circle at SX 65197615 within an area forested on the 1954 OS 1:10560 map. Visible on RAF 1946 aerial photograph.

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

(21/10/1993) Centred SX 65307624. A hut circle and enclosure located within a coniferous plantation on a moderate north-west-facing slope 600m north west of Laughter Hole Farm. The hut lies as SX 65287623 in the middle of an access track and has been surrounded by Forestry Commission antiquity markers. It has been severely damaged and consists of a boggy, levelled platform 2.3m in diameter surrounded by a rough circle of disturbed stones. There is no trace of an entrance. Two other huts, approximately 25m to the north west and 100m to the north, are recorded by the RCHME APU transcription; (1985) there is, however, no trace of these on the ground. The extant hut adjoins a stoney bank 2.0m wide and 0.6m high that forms part of a fragmentary rectilinear field system covering an area of approximately 1.25ha. It is likely that this system was once contiguous with others to the south and south west (SX 67 NE 25 and 223).

Gerrard, S., 1993-2010, Monument Protection Programme Alternative Action Report (Report - non-specific). SDV145710.

(-/-/2002) Much disrupted by forestry. Considered under MPP but not recommended for scheduling.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

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
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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