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Summary

Hut measures 6.6 metres in diameter, with double orthostat walls 0.8 metres high. Doorway on the south-eastern side. A second large slab lying within the entrance probably represents a fallen jamb from the east side. Butted by field walls.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019603: Coaxial fields, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Halshanger and Horridge Commons, forming part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field system
• SHINE: Earthworks and stone walls of a Bronze Age parallel reave system on Mountsland, Halshanger and Horridge Commons, comprising the remains of a field system, hut circle settlements, enclosures and cairns, and surface remains of 19th century Hemsworthy Mine

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77SE/136/1
• Old SAM Ref: 28774
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152308, 1/4/1999 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Stone hut circle within coaxial fields on Horridge Common. Diameter 6.6 metres. Double orthostat wall 0.8 metres high. 168 degree facing gap denoted by a large orthostat on west may represent a doorway. A second large slab lying within the entrance probably represents a fallen jamb from the east side. Butted by field walls. Covered with grass, bracken and gorse with hawthorn trees.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume One - The East, 47; figure 6.2. (Monograph). SDV299725.

Newman, P., 2015, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, figure 21 (Report - Survey). SDV359145.

Hut circle on northern sector of Horridge Common. A hut circle, one of two sited just south of the Bagtor Wood enclosure. Two door jambs survive in situ on the south-east side. Conditions is stable but gorse covered. SX75763 74858

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(April 2019 visit) Condition recorded as bad; vegetation cover (gorse) impacting site.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Image taken during April 2019 visit.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6836 - Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape survey

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