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Summary

Damaged hut circle situated in moorland pasture at SX 6433 7247 on slopping ground immediately S of the deeply-rutted trackway of the former Tavistock - Ashburton moorland road. The hut circle is defined by a loose ring of large stones and boulders accompanied by slight internal scarping on the E side. Little remains on the NW. Overall diameter of between 8 and 9m, internal diameter c. 5 - 6m.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SW43
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443358
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SW/66
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX67SW43

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

'Hut Circle' shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey, 1906, 107SE (Cartographic). SDV336773.

'Hut Circle' shown on early 20th century map.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1951/1980, SX67SW43 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV262013.

(23/11/1951) Hut circle at 20/6472/3347 not clearly defined. Stones on NE quater buried or turf covered.
(11/02/1980) On a north slope at 323m. OD is a Type 1 (SX 56 SE 19) hut circle. It has a level interior with an internal diameter of 5.0m. and rubble walling 0.6m. thick and 0.5m. high. There is no obvious entrance. The hut has been mutilated by a moorland track.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD and at 1:2500 for AO Records.

Royal Air Force, 1964, f61 58 raf 6399, 32-33 (Aerial Photograph). SDV262014.

Photograph taken on 2nd July 1964.

National Monuments Record, 1976, NMR SX6472, 3/72 (Aerial Photograph). SDV245616.

Photograph taken on 11th April 1976.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Visible on aerial photograph and recorded.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit, P. Pattison (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(25/07/1988) Damaged hut circle situated in moorland pasture at SX 6433 7247 on slopping ground immediately S of the deeply-rutted trackway of the former Tavistock - Ashburton moorland road.
The hut circle is defined by a loose ring of large stones and boulders accompanied by slight internal scarping on the E side. Little remains on the NW. Overall diameter of between 8 and 9m, internal diameter c. 5 - 6m: it is difficult to be precise because of damage especially on the N where the trackway has clipped the circle. A small section of wall 1.2m wide survives on the E side where there is also slight tracing into the slope. The interior is level but has been cut through by a small leat (SX 67 SW 187), running just NW of the centre line. Condition is therefore, poor.
This hut circle was possibly associated with a field system situated just to the SW (SX 67 SW 44) but not now physically linked.
The hut circle is visible on AP's.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 207-208, Map62, Figure 62.2 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Hut Circle '4' beside the track with a diameter of 6.3 metres and only the larfer slabs remaining.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

A hut circle is shown 35 metres to the south-west of the track.

Ordnance Survey, 2020, MasterMap 2020 (Cartographic). SDV363413.

'Hut Circle' shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8146 - Royal Commission Survey at Down Ridge and Swincombe
• EDV8632 - Sherberton Farm, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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