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Summary

One of a group of six huts excavated by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1896. Hut D measures 4.7m in diameter. Internal area 17.34m. Double and single orthostat wall 1.3m wide, 0.6m high. Door faces 192 degrees and is indicated by substantial flanking stones which have both fallen into the passage and now rest against each other. Two large orthostats from the e wall have collapsed into the hut's interior. Grass. Excavated by DEC in 1896 revealing a small amount of charcoal and a flint.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018710: Three agglomerated enclosures, a round cairn and part of the Stannon block field system lying within Great Stannon Newtake

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68SW4
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443919
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SW/11/3
• Old SAM County Ref: 979
• Old SAM Ref: 28683

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Baring Gould, S., 1896, Third Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, 183 (Article in Serial). SDV260468.

Four more huts excavated at White Ridge. Hut D; yielded one cooking stone (diameter 432mm, thickness 76mm).

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX68SW4, Hut D (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV243893.

(28/02/1950) Hut D: diameter 5.5m. Walling of turf and large stones. Height 0.4m, entrance to south.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 144223 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(24/10/1997) Hut circle forming part of an enclosed stone hut circle settlement in Great Stannon newtake.
At SX64238180. Hut 144223. Diameter 4.7m. Internal area 17.34m. Double and single orthostat wall 1.3m wide, 0.6m high. Door faces 192 degrees and is indicated by substantial flanking stones which have both fallen into the passage and now rest against each other. Two large orthostats from the e wall have collapsed into the hut's interior. Grass. Excavated by DEC in 1896 revealing a small amount of charcoal and a flint.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 159-61;fig 35.5 (Monograph). SDV219155.

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

Visible on the aerial photography.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8650 - Great Stannon Newtake, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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