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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

• HUT CIRCLE (LANEBA to Early Iron Age - 2300 BC to 700 BC)
• CAIRN (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))

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 25.2, 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.

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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