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Summary

One of three Bronze Age hut circles terraced into the hillside on the right bank of the Assycombe Brook. The hut has been extensively robbed of stone and survives as a 6.4 metre diameter circular earthwork stepped into the terrace. A breach in the bank on the south-east side probably represents the entrance. All three hut circles have suffered disturbance by forestry activity.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1017981: Stone alignment, hut circle settlement, medieval long house and post-medieval farmstead at Assycombe

Other References/Statuses

• MPP Archaeological Item Dataset: 144154
• National Monuments Record: SX68SE6
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443784
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/20
• Old SAM County Ref: 959B
• Old SAM Ref: 28655

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Department of Environment, 07/05/1975, Hut Circles E of Assycombe Brook (Schedule Document). SDV357774.

Hut b. A smaller hut, partly overgrown, to north-east of hut a.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950-1978, SX68SE6 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV276166.

Turner, J. R., 1976, Ancient Monuments on Forestry Commission Land. Fernworthy and Bellever (Report - non-specific). SDV351823.

Fernworthy Plantation. Assacombe 9C. SX 6604 8245. Hut circle, 5.1 metres diameter. On a platform site cut into a west facing slope. Largest stone has fallen away. Not intestigated. Has been planted over.
February 1976. One tree growing inside, five trees growing in the walls. 16 posts ringing clearance zone enclosing 9C and 10C. Trees standing within. Trees outside post ring are within falling distance of hut.
Not included in 1955 Spooner and Dixon report.

Turner, J., 1978, Report of Work Carried Out by the Forestry Commission since January 1976 (Report - non-specific). SDV351816.

Sites 9C and 10C are still covered with fallen trees and debris.

Robinson, R., 1983, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1983 (Un-published). SDV345762.

Department of Environment Field Monument Warden site visit on 24th June 1983.

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

Not visible on 1946 RAF aerial photos due to tree cover.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., 144154 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Site visit 29th April 1997. Hut circle forming part of settlement at Assycombe. 6.0 metres diameter. Wall 1.8 metres wide, 0.5 metres high. Internal area 28.26 square metres. A south-south-east facing gap may represent a doorway.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, Map 35 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Depicted and described by Butler.

Smith, N., 1992, Condition Survey of Identified Archaeology with Woodland Areas 1992 (Un-published). SDV351819.

Fernworthy. Assycombe. 9C/10C. Site visit 27th May 1992. Hut circles adjacent to one another in a clearing on a west facing slope. Site marked. No trees within marked out area. Suggested that present vegetation management regime be maintained. Photo.

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

(03/06/1995) The huts lie on the steep W facing slope above the right bank of the Assycombe Brook within Fernworthy Forest. All have suffered disturbance by forestry activity. They are well-built from upright slabs and boulders and are terraced into the hillside. Entrances are in the S quadrant.

Dartmoor National Park Authority, 1996, Condition Survey of Identified Archaeology within Woodland Areas 1996 (Un-published). SDV351820.

Fernworthy. Assycombe Group 9C/10C. Site visit 27th September 1996. Site marked.

Fugro-BKS, 2013, Fernworthy Forest LiDAR survey (Cartographic). SDV351778.

Hut circle visible.

Newman, P., 2013, Fernworthy Forest Sites Survey (Un-published). SDV351708.

Newman, P., 2013, The Archaeology of Fernworthy Forest, Dartmoor, Devon, 23, Fig. 19 (Report - Survey). SDV351784.

[One of a] group of three huts 130 metres south of the Assacombe stone row. The hut has been extensively robbed of stone and survives as a 6.4 metre diameter circular earthwork stepped into the terrace. A breach in the bank on the south-east side probably represents the entrance.

English Heritage, 2014, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV355683.

[Part of] stone alignment, hut circle settlement, medieval long house and post-medieval farmstead at Assycombe.

National Monument Record, 2014, Pastscape, 443784 (Website). SDV355682.

[One of] three Bronze Age hut circles on the right bank of the Assycombe Brook. All have suffered disturbance by forestry activity. They are well-built from upright slabs and boulders and are terraced into the hillside. Entrances are in the southern quadrant. NMR No. SX68SE6. Record last updated: N/A.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6203 - Archaeological Survey of Fernworthy Forest
• EDV6216 - Condition Surveys of Ancient Monuments on Forestry Commission Land
• EDV7389 - Fernworthy Forest condition survey 1996
• EDV7410 - Fernworthy Forest condition survey 1992
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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