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Summary

Hut circle of 5.5 metres diameter with walls 1.3 metres wide by up to 1.2 metres high within the extensive settlement on the western slopes of Longaford and Littaford Tors

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020876: Prehistoric settlement, field system and rabbit warren south of Longaford Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Archaeological Record: SX67NW81
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NW/63/89
• Old SAM Ref: 34551

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SX67NW81, SX67NW81 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV249650.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX67NW99, SX67NW 99 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV350197.

Pattison, P., 1989, Cherrybrook and Longaford Survey, Plan (Report - Survey). SDV337021.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 157053 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Visited on 22nd April 2002. Stone hut circle 450 metres south-west of Longaford Tor, forming part of a prehistoric settlement on the western slopes of Longaford and Littaford Tors. Hut of 5.5 metres diameter with a single and double orthostat wall 1.3 metres wide by up to 1.2 metres high. The wall is 1.2 metres high at the door and elsewhere up to 0.7 metres high. A large stone set through the wall represents one side of a doorway. Another large recumbent orthostat lying within the hut represents another, now displaced, door jamb. Butted by walling. Grass, rushes and gorse.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 60-61, Map 29, Figure 29.1 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle at the corner of a section of boundary to the north of the 'field wall'.

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

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 10020876 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

One of 101 hut circles in settlement on the western slopes of Longaford and Littaford Tors.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8644 - Cherrybrook and Longford Newtake, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project

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