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Summary

Southern of a pair of hut circles shown on historic maps to the north-east of Bush Down of 9 metres diameter

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1003198: Two hut circles NW of Bush Down

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68SE12
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443790
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/34/1
• Old SAM County Ref: 970B

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.

Southern of two 'Hut Circles' shown on 19th centruy map to the west of the road.

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

Southern of two 'Hut Circles' shown on early 20th century map.

Ancient Monuments, 1975, Schedule note (Schedule Document). SDV314520.

(29/10/1975) Hut with walls of large boulders, some placed upright. Two gaps in walling are possibly the entrance, on north-west and south-east sides. Two hut circles are positioned at the crossing of two stone field walls. Overgrown with bracken and heather.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SX68SE12, Hut B (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV314524.

(14/06/1978) Situated at SX 6870 8255 on a west facing hillslope are the remains of two type 2 huts.
SX 6868 8253 'B' of similar construction though less well defined is roughly oval being 9 metres north to south by 7 metres transversely with walls up to 0.4 metres high and entrance gaps in the north and south.
Traces of primitive walling of boulder construction, averaging 0.4 metres high, run between the huts and continue downslope to the north west.
Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 28, Map 25 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Group '4' to the north-east of Bush Down consists of two huts on the edge of a small enclosure. The lower hut of 7.5 metres diameter constructed of smaller slabs than the upper hut.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Not visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2022, Mastermap 2022 (Cartographic). SDV364674.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7505 - Boveycombehedd, Chagford: An Archaeological Investigation of a Diachronic Landscape

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