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Summary

Hut circle south-west of Huccaby Tor overlaid by a modern field wall. Constructed mainly of large boulders the hut measures 9.5 metres in diameter internally with walling 0.6 metres wide and 0.6 metres high. There is no visible entrance.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork and structural remains of a Bronze Age hut circle overlain by a modern wall, south-west of Huccaby Tor
• SHINE: Earthwork and structural remains of a Bronze Age hut circle overlain by a modern wall, south-west of Huccaby Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE23
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442922
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/57
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

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.

Northern of two 'Hut Circles' shown on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

'Hut Circle' shown on early 20th century map on the north side of the field boundary.

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2149, 3425-6, 4424-4425 (Aerial Photograph). SDV282746.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1951/1980, SX67SE23 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV219050.

(25/08/1951) Hut circle. Easily recognised and in good shape. Stones 0.7m high.
(06/03/1980) On a south west slope at 323m OD in a Type 2 (SX 56 NE 71) hut
circle in very poor condition and overlaid by a modern field wall. Constructed mainly of large boulders the hut measures 9.5m in diameter internally with walling 0.6m wide and 0.6m high. There is no visible entrance. The hut is within a modern field but was probably formerly associated with the nearby parallel reave system (SX 67 SE 94).
Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD.

Royal Air Force, 1964, 58/6399, F6158 (Aerial Photograph). SDV225273.

Fox, A., 1969, Swincombe Survey, 18-19 (Report - Survey). SDV250998.

(Estimated 1968) A group of three or four Bronze age huts, very ruined. No associated fields.

National Monuments Record, 1976/1979, NMR SF1133, 86 (Aerial Photograph). SDV234381.

Greeves, T. A. P., 1984, Huccaby Farm, Dartmoor: A Preliminary Archaeological Survey (Report - Survey). SDV247137.

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

Hut circle attached to a field boundary visible on 1947 aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 57, 227, Map 28, Site 10 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Brownberry east at SX653738 with one hut circle of circa 9.0 metres diameter which lies in the angle between two field walls but its associated enclosures have been completely swept away.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1993-1998, Dartmoor Royal Forest Project (Report - Survey). SDV346608.

(30/11/1995) SX 65357384. This feature is as described in 1980.

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

Hut shown on survey.

Ordnance Survey, 2019, MasterMap 2019 (Cartographic). SDV362729.

Hut shown on modern mapping

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV3462 - Survey at Huccaby Farm, Lydford
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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