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Summary

Hut within the Dartmeet reave system. Described as well-preserved, with heather topped walls in 1993. Survey in 1996 recorded diameter of 6.6 metres, walls 1.5 metres wide, 0.8 metres high. South-eastern entrance. This hut has an outer, D-shaped courtyard to the south.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020487: Part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system and other archaeological remains on Holne Moor west and north west of Venford Reservoir

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE42
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442977
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/88
• Old SAM Ref: 22368

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, 2373-2374 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950/1977, SX67SE42 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV140061.

27/4/1950 (SX 6711 7129) Hut circle A. One of two hut circles walling of turf covered stones. Measures 8.0 metres in diameter, with walls 2.0 metres wide and 0.6 metres high. Entrance to south-east.
(12/07/1977) Centred SX 67207120. This settlement consists of 7 type II hut circles and lies on a moderate, well drained, north east facing slope at 350m above OD. The huts are terraced with average internal diameters of 5.5m, and walls about 1.5m thick. Most are in poor condition, some faced with large boulders; entrances are in the south east and one has a possible internal dividing wall. The huts are integrated with the cross walls of the parallel reave system (SX 56 SE 92).
Survey at 1:10 000 scale on PFD/AO Model.

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

Hut circle attached to a sinuous bank visible on 1946 aerial photograph.

Griffith, F. M., 1990, DAP/QF, 1-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDV140063.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 183, Map 60.4 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Butler's hut 2 (6.7 metres diameter). Well-preserved, with heather topped walls. This hut has a fallen pillar at the entrance and an outer, D-shaped courtyard to the south.

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 67207120. One of nine hut circles and two other contemporary structures lie within the area described by the Ordnance Survey in 1977. All the huts are terraced into the gentle north-facing slope providing level interiors of between 3.5 metres and 6.8 metres in diameter. Most of the huts (see related records) adjoin elements of the Dartmeet parallel reave system (SX 67 SE 95). Entrances, where apparent, lie in the south-east or east quadrants.
(SX 6712 7129) Diameter 6.6 metres, walls 1.5 metres wide, 0.8 metres high. South-eastern entrance.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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