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Summary

Hut Circle '5' (Butler) lies within the Dartmeet parallel reave system immediately south-east of Venford Reservoir. Hut measures 8 metres in internal diameter with walls 2.5 metres wide and 0.6 metres high. Adjoining the south wall of this hut are the remains of a small sub-rectangular structure 2.5 metres by 1.3 metres internally.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020092: Prehistoric fields, settlements and cairn south east of Venford Reservoir forming part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE33
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442950
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/5
• Old SAM County Ref: 874
• Old SAM Ref: 22370
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX67SE33

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.

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2149, 4416 (Aerial Photograph). SDV282746.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX67SE33 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV168686.

(27/04/1950) Hut circle. Walls of small turf covered stones. Entrance destroyed by construction of slit trench.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX67SE33 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV168680.

(07/07/1977) SX 6864 7057: Two terraced hut circles lie on a moderate well drained north west facing slope at 320 metres above OD. Their average internal diameter is 7.5 metres and the small stone walls are 1.3 metres to 2 metres wide with south facing entrances. One hut abuts and the other lies within the field walls of the parallel reave system (SX 67 SE 92). 1:10 000 survey revised on PFD.

National Monuments Record, 1979, NMR SF1457, 462-465 (Aerial Photograph). SDV172921.

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

Hut circle in the middle of an area of ridge and furrow visible on 1979 aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 176-7, Map 59, Figure 59.1 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Hut Circle '5' of 7.8 metres diameter with walls spread to 2.5 metres wide but were originally 1.5 metres wide. The hut had a porch outside the entrance on the south side. At some stage this was dug into though the interior of the hut was left undisturbed.

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) SX 6863 7060 and SX 6866 7055. Two hut circles lie within the Dartmeet parallel reave system (SX 67 SE 95) immediately south-?west of Venford Reservoir. The north hut at SX 6863 7060 measures 5.2 metres north to south by 6.3 metres internally with spread, stoney walls 2 metres wide and 0.5 metres high. A well defined entrance lies in the south side. The south hut is larger measuring 8 metres in internal diameter with walls 2.5 metres wide and 0.6 metres high. Adjoining the south wall of this hut are the remains of a small sub-rectangular structure 2.5 metres by 1.3 metres internally.

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

Hut shown on survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

Hut shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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