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Summary

Hut in reave system; one of a group of five originally recorded by the Ordnance Survey in 1950. Survey in 1996 recorded the diameter as 5.6 metres internally, walls 1.1 metres wide, 0.4 metres high. Entrance to south-east, slightly sloping interior.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Part of the Dartmeet parallel reave system east of Down Ridge. Earthworks and walling remains of a Bronze Age field system adjoining the Venford Reave, with numerous hut circles, enclosures, cairns and a later medieval field system

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE201
• National Monuments Record: SX67SE58
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1065075
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443025
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67SE/106

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

National Monument Record, 19/05/1977, SX6672/2, 164-165 (Aerial Photograph). SDV173027.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX67SE58, A (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV277634.

(27/4/1950) Group of five hut circles named A-E. Hut circle A (SX 6641 7178). Very vague and fragmentary, approximately 8.0 metres in diameter. Remains of entrance to south-east.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX67SE58 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV257888.

(18/07/1977) A group of four type 1 hut circles situated on a northeast facing slope ranging from 309.0m to 324.0m OD. All are in poor condition and have levelled interiors with entrances on the east. The internal diameters are from 5.0m to 8.5m with a mean of 7.0m with walling averaging 1.6m thick and 0.6m high.
The four huts are included in Aileen Fox's description in SX 67 SE 55 and are situated within the reave system. (SX 67 SE 95).
Revised 1:10 000 on PFD.

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

Enclosure integrated with reave system SX67SE/248. A reave divides the enclosure in two with three elements in the east and one in the west. A hut circle occurs in the western element. Visible on 1977 aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 198, Map 61.1 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Hut 8 (6.1 metres in diameter). Entrance on uphill (south) side.

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

(Visited 10/01/1996) SX 665718. A group of ten hut circles within a well-developed portion of the Dartmeet Parallel Reave System (locally SX 67 SE 95) in Slade Newtake south-west of Saddle Bridge.
The huts (see related records) are mostly relatively large with diameters in the range of 3.7 metres to 7.0 metres and well preserved. Their walls are well-defined and sometimes massively built with upright slabs and coursed boulders. Entrances, where apparent, are usually in the south-eastern quadrant. Most of the huts lie in a series of small regular enclosures subdividing the large rectangular blocks between the axial elements of the parallel system. A solitary cairn (SX 67 SE 208) lies at SX 66416 71764 at the centre of the settlement.
Hut at SX 66426 71785, diameter 5.6 metres internally, walls 1.1 metres wide, 0.4 metres high. Entrance to south-east, slightly sloping interior.

Environment Agency WMS, 1998-2016, LiDAR DSM data JPEG image (1m resolution) (Cartographic). SDV360209.

Visible on lidar image.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8146 - Royal Commission Survey at Down Ridge and Swincombe
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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