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Summary

Cairn or hut circle on the north side of a D-shaped enclosure on west side of Hurston Main Reave on Chagford Common

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019577: Stone alignment, cairns, enclosed prehistoric settlement and a length of reave on Hurston Ridge

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/203/1
• Old SAM Ref: 28779

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• (Alternate Type) CAIRN (Constructed, Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152379 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Cairn adjacent to the Hurston Ridge Reave.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 30, Figure 25.1, Map 25 (Monograph). SDV219155.

On the north side of a pair of D-shaped enclosures (Settlement 8) are a few set stones alongside as the possible remains of a hut.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 1019577 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

This cairn measures 4 metres in diameter and stands 0.5 metres high. Hollows in the centre indicate that it has been subjected to partial early excavation or robbing.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7505 - Boveycombehedd, Chagford: An Archaeological Investigation of a Diachronic Landscape

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