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Summary

The northern of two hut circles to the north of Rippon Tor. The interior is 4.0 metres diameter and is surrounded by a 2.0 metres wide stoney bank standing up to 0.7 metres high. A south-south-east facing gap may represent the doorway.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020377: Two stone hut circles 80m and 130m north of Rippon Tor
• 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: SX77NW104
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1343562
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77NW/411
• Old SAM Ref: 28783

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152387 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Site visit 1999. Northern of two stone hut circles, 110 metres north of Rippon Tor.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume One - The East, 75, Map 5 (Monograph). SDV299725.

Newman, P., 2013, An Archaeological Assessment of Halshanger and Horridge Commons, Dartmoor, Devon, 8, Table 1 (Report - Assessment). SDV356396.

Hut circle within the Rippon Tor newtake. Condition stable. Vegetation: grassland.

Newman, P., 2013, Halshanger Sites Visited and Confirmed (Report - Survey). SDV351113.

English Heritage, 2014, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV355683.

Two stone hut circles 80m and 130m north of Rippon Tor.
The monument, which falls into two separate areas of protection, includes two stone hut circles situated on the north facing slope of Rippon Tor overlooking the valley of the Becka Brook. The interior of the northern stone hut circle measures 4m in diameter and is surrounded by a 2m wide stoney bank standing up to 0.7m high. A SSE facing gap in the wall may represent an original doorway. The southern building survives as a 1.3m wide stoney bank standing up to 0.6m high surrounding an internal area measuring 4.9m in diameter.
The two stone hut circles 80m and 130m north of Rippon Tor survive comparatively well and represent an important source of environmental and archaeological information for the settlement of Dartmoor in the later prehistoric period. The settlement lies within the nationally important Rippon Tor coaxial field system and close to several significant funerary cairns, which are the subject of a separate schedulings.

Newman, P., 2015, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, 59 (Report - Survey). SDV359145.

Hut Circle 170 metres north of Rippon Tor. One of two hut circles, heavily disguised by turf on the north slope of Rippon Tor. Condition is stable. SX74682 75744

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, RT6 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited January 2019. Vegetation encroachment. Photo taken

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, RT6 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Visited January 2019. Photo taken looking north north east

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6433 - Assessment of Halsanger Common, Horridge Common and Rippon Tor
• EDV6836 - Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape survey

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