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Summary

Inside and adjacent to the west edge of enclosure MDV6379 are two hut circles. Both have been terraced into the slope to create level interiors and possess walls 1 metres wide and up to 0.5 metres high. Neither shows any obvious signs of an entrance. The north hut has an internal diameter of 4.2 metres while in the south-west corner of the enclosure the other hut measures 2.5 metres in diameter.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020095: Enclosed prehistoric settlement and round cairn 880m south west of Venford Reservoir dam

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE32
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442947
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/4/1
• Old SAM County Ref: 875
• Old SAM Ref: 22373.03

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, 4366-4367 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX67SE32 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV171027.

(26/04/1950) A small circular enclosure containing two hut circles. The hut circle (diameter 5.5m) is attached to the enclosure wall. No obvious entrance.

Ancient Monuments, 1971, Notes on scheduled site (Schedule Document). SDV171019.

(04/02/1971) Ruinous hut circle within an enclosure.

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

Ovoidal-shaped enclosure with two incorporated hut circles visible on the 1946 aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 189, Map 60, fig 60.9, enclosure D (Monograph). SDV337765.

Pair of huts. The northern hut measures 4.2 metres in diameter and has an entrance opening into the wider enclosure. The other hut to the south measures 2.6 metres in diameter and does not have an obvious entrance.

Probert, S. A. J. + Newman, P., 1997, Holne Moor, Dartmoor, Devonshire. A Landscape Survey by the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (Report - Survey). SDV173671.

(18/04/1996) Centred SX 6807 7054: A sub-circular enclosure containing two hut circles adjacent to the south-west corner of the fence surrounding Venford Reservoir (see related record for enclosure details).
Inside and adjacent to the west edge of the enclosure are two hut circles. Both have been terraced into the slope to create level interiors and possess walls 1 metres wide and up to 0.5 metres high. Neither shows any obvious signs of an entrance. The north hut at SX 6806 7055 has an internal diameter of 4.2 metres while at SX 6806 7054 in the south west corner of the enclosure the other hut measures 2.5 metres in diameter.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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