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Summary

Hut circle; one of a group of four huts on the south-eastern edge of Horridge Common. This hut is smaller than the other three and less well preserved; due to being less substantially built. This hut shares an enclosure with MDV62337. Diameter 5.4 metres, single orthostat wall 0.9 metres wide, 0.5 metres high. A 130 degree facing gap may represent a doorway. Covered in 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

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77SE/6/9
• 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, 46; figure 6.1, Map 6 (Monograph). SDV299725.

Butler’s hut circle 4 measures approximately 5.0 metres in diameter and is of much slighter construction than the others in this group. Only the tops of a circle of slabs now show above the surface in the corner of the enclosure shared with hut 2.

Gerrard, S., 1999, Survey on Halshanger Common, MPP 152317 (Report - Survey). SDV290796.

Stone hut circle within coaxial fields on Horridge Common. Diameter 5.4 metres, single orthostat wall 0.9 metres wide, 0.5 metres high. A 130 degree facing gap may represent a doorway. Covered in 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 four hut circles within an enclosed neighbourhood cluster associated within the southern section of the reave system on Horridge Common. Condition is stable but affected by bracken. SX75689 74321.

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

(April 2019 visit) Condition assessed as bad; primary damage agent is vegetation (bracken, with 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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