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Summary

Hut circle in parallel reave system on Horridge Down, not attached to a reave, unlike all of its close neighbouring huts. Diameter 5.4 metres, double and single orthostat wall 1.2 metres wide, 1.0 metre high. 1.5 metres by 1.0 metre by 0.5 metres deep pit in the centre of the hut with old rabbit burrows leading out from its sides. There is a tree in the south wall. Hut covered in grass and bracken. Butler describes this site as a cairn, presumably because of the central pit, but on balance it looks more like a hut.

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/6/4
• 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 feature 14 is described as a cairn. This cairn has been trenched, revealing an interior of earth and small stones. The ring of stones, about 6.5 metres across, surrounds a mound about 0.5 metres high. The large kerbstone along the lower edge causes the cairn to be unusually flattened on this side.

Gerrard, S., 1999, Survey on Halshanger Common, MPP 152312 (Report - Survey). SDV290796.

Stone hut circle within coaxial fields on Horridge Common. Diameter 5.4 metres, double and single orthostat wall 1.2 metres wide, 1.0 metre high. 1.5 metres by 1.0 metre by 0.5 metres deep pit in the centre of the hut with old rabbit burrows leading out from its sides. There is a tree in the south wall. Hut covered in grass and bracken. Butler describes this site as a cairn, presumably because of the central pit, but on balance it looks more like a hut.

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. SX75717 74541.

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

(April 2019 visit) Condition assessed as moderate; primary damage agent is vegetation (gorse and some tree growth).

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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