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| HER Number: | MDV6760 |
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| Name: | Duplicate record: see MDV13031 |
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Summary
Four huts and enclosure excavated by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee (1898) recorded without good location data; this record refers to settlement 900m to the south-south-east: see MDV13031.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 605 810 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX68SW |
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| Admin Area | Dartmoor National Park |
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| Civil Parish | Dartmoor Forest |
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| District | West Devon |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | LYDFORD |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses
- National Monuments Record
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SW/18
- Pastscape
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- (Former Type) HUT CIRCLE? (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)
Full description
Baring Gould, S., 1898, 5th Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, 104 (Article in Serial). SDV265401.
West Dart Head; four small hut circles (diameter 4.3m, wall width 610mm) on the east slope of the hill between Horse Hole Bottom and West Dart Head. Also ruins of small paddocks. All four huts were examined, but only one gave results: it has a ruined wall and dilapidated entrance facing south south west. The floor of the hut resting on calm was 420mm below the surface. Finds: charcoal, rotten fragments of pottery, 8 cooking stones, two flint scrapers and a flint arrowhead of barbed and tanged variety with one barb missing.
Worth, R. H., 1945, The Dartmoor Hut Circles, 252 (Article in Serial). SDV246120.
Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1957, SX68SW19 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV245403.
Enclosure and four huts at West Dart Head. Diameter of hut 14 feet. Excavations revealed pottery and a barbed arrow (Lady Fox citing Gould's article in TDA, 1898).
(November 1957) Unable to find these features within the area centred at SX 60508105.
Ordnance Survey, 1975, OS/75/369, 125-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDV254607.
Not visible on aerial photographs.
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.
Not visible on 1947 RAF aerial photograph.
Gerrard, S., 1993-2010, Monument Protection Programme Alternative Action Report (Report - non-specific). SDV145710.
Considered under MPP but no hut settlement at this location. Entry appears to refer to SX68SW/8.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV145710 | Report - non-specific: Gerrard, S.. 1993-2010. Monument Protection Programme Alternative Action Report. English Heritage. Unknown. |
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| SDV245403 | Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card: Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division. 1957. SX68SW19. Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card. Card Index. |
| SDV246120 | Article in Serial: Worth, R. H.. 1945. The Dartmoor Hut Circles. Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 77. A5 Hardback. 252. |
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| SDV254607 | Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1975. OS/75/369. Ordnance Survey Aerial Photograph. 125-6. |
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| SDV265401 | Article in Serial: Baring Gould, S.. 1898. 5th Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee. Transactions of the Devonshire Association. 30. Unknown. 104. |
| SDV319854 | Cartographic: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1985. Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP. Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England Aerial Photograph P. Cartographic. |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV13031 | Related to: Hut circle settlement 460 metres north-east of Rough Tor (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events
- EDV7441 - Condition survey of the archaeological sites of Merrivale Training Area
- EDV7570 - Condition survey of Merrivale Range training area
- EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
- EDV8713 - Merrivale Range: Monument Baseline Condition Survey
| Date Last Edited: | Jul 26 2022 11:12AM |
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