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Summary

A double-walled hut, internal diameter 6.0 metres, with walling 1.3 metres thick and 0.6 metres high. It is on a north-east slope but has a levelled interior with an orthostatic entrance on the south-east.

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: SX67SE46 SX 67 SE 46
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442989
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/266
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/91
• Old SAM County Ref: 966
• Old SAM Ref: 22368

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX67SE46 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV140782.

(Visited 27/4/1950) Hut circle, 7.5 metres in diameter. Walls consist of large turf covered stones 1.5 metres wide by 0.7 metres high. This hut circle was probably of the double walled type but difficult to say for certain in its present state.

National Monument Record, 1977, NMR SX6771/1, 66-69 (Aerial Photograph). SDV170240.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX67SE46 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV140781.

(03/12/1977) Five widely spaced hut circles, centred at SX 681716, occur on the crest and north slopes of a spur between 310 and 330m OD. Each seems to be associated with a single rectilinear field of from 0.5 to 1.0 ha within the local reave system.
SX 6802 7180. A type 2 hut, internal diameter 6.0 metres, with walling 1.3 metres thick and 0.6 metres high. It is on a north-east slope but has a levelled interior with an orthostatic entrance on the south-east. Hut circles surveyed at 1:10 000 on PFD.

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

Hut circle within a quadrant enclosure attached to a reave. Forms an integral part of the parallel reave system and enclosure could perhaps be described as a field. Visible on 1977 aerial photograph.

Devon County Council Photographic Unit, 1988, DAP/JW, 9a,10 (Aerial Photograph). SDV214895.

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

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.

(Visited 25/04/1996) Centred SX 681716. The huts are generally as described in 1977.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7062 - Survey of the Wheal Emma Leat, Dartmoor
• EDV7100 - Holne Moor Survey

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