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Summary

One of at least six hut circles within the central of three Prehistorc settlements on Chagford Common

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018926: Three agglomerated enclosures containing stone hut circles, a cairn cemetery, post-medieval fields and tinworks on Chagford Common

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68SE69
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443869
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/120/1
• Old SAM Ref: 28728

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1964, RAF/F64/58/6399, 20-21 (Aerial Photograph). SDV255307.

Crop mark of a hut circle at SX 68038348.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP149383 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Site visited on 29th January 1999. Stone hut circle forming part of an enclosed Prehistoric settlement on Chagford Common. Earthwork of 6.7 metres diameter with a single orthostat wall 2.1 metres wide by 0.8 metres high. The north-east sector has a single orthostat with stone defining the inside edge. A south facing gap may represent a doorway. Covered in grass and short gorse.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 30, Map 25 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut 10 on the northern perimeter of Settlement 6 is 6.9 metres diameter and separated from Hut 9 by a tinner's ditch.

Passmore, A. J., 1997, Boveycombehedd, Chagford, Devon: an archaeological investigation of a Diachronic landscape, 14, Figure 3 (Post-Graduate Thesis). SDV360382.

Hut 5 built into the northern perimeter of Prehistoric enclosure (B) with an internal dimension of 7 metres by 3 metres and an entrance on the south-east. This hut is separated from Hut 6 by a tinner's gully.

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

Circular feature visible on data.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Feature visible on aerial photograph.

Historic England, 2018, National Heritage List for England, 1018926 (National Heritage List for England). SDV360653.

The monument includes three agglomerated enclosures containing stone hut circles, a cairn cemetery, post-medieval fields, an openwork, streamworks, and a tin mine situated on an east facing slope of Chagford Common overlooking the Walla Brook.
The central agglomerated enclosure includes at least eleven elements and contains six stone hut circles.
The southern agglomerated enclosure which has been partially overlain by a post-medieval field system containing ridge and furrow is associated with at least five stone hut circles. The stone hut circles survive as circular or oval banks each surrounding an internal area which varies from 6 sq m to 78.5 sq m, with the average being 34.6 sq m. The height of the surrounding walls varies between 0.6m and 1.05m, with the average being 0.74m. Six of the huts have visible doorways, nine are attached to field boundary banks and they are all of orthostatic or rubble bank construction.

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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