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Summary

Hut circle in parallel reave system on Horridge Down; one of a pair attached to a reave within a narrow enclosure or corridor. Several others in close proximity. Diameter 6.7 metres, single orthostat wall 1.3 metre wide, 1.0 metre high. 75 degree facing gap may represent a doorway. Butted by wall. Crescent shaped courtyard shared with another hut. Covered with grass and bracken.

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

• National Monuments Record: 445196
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77SE/6/1
• Old SAM Ref: 28774
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume One - The East, 48; figure 6.1, Map 6 (Monograph). SDV299725.

Butler’s hut circle 13 measures 6.4 metres in diameter and is built only 5 metres away from Hut 12 (MDV62329) against the corridor wall. Two slabs, one of which has fallen, attached this hut to the opposite bank to the north-east, apparently blocking access uphill.

Gerrard, S., 1999, Survey on Halshanger Common, MPP 152309 (Report - Survey). SDV290796.

Stone hut circle within coaxial fields on Horridge Common. Diameter 6.7 metres, single orthostat wall 1.3 metre wide, 1.0 metre high. 75 degree facing gap may represent a doorway. Butted by wall. Crescent shaped courtyard shared with another hut. Covered with grass and bracken.

Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.

Hut circle depicted on the modern mapping.

Newman, P., 2015, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, 58 (Report - Survey). SDV359145.

Hut circle in reave system on Horridge Common. One of a neighbourhood group of seven huts located within the reave system on Horridge Common. Condition is stable. SX75704 74614

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

(April 2019 visit) Condition assessed as bad; primary damage agent is vegetation (gorse).

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

Image taken on 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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