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Summary

Hut Circle '1' of 8 metres diameter with walls up to 3 metres wide by 0.5 metres high contained within a small roughly rectangular enclosure in the large settlement on Throwleigh Common

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018916: Coaxial field system, associated and later remains at Throwleigh Common and Kennon Hill

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 69 SE 11
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX69SE/64
• Old SAM County Ref: 778
• Old SAM Ref: 28694
• Pastscape: 444068

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.

'Hut Circle' shown on 19th century map.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/3G/TUD/UK/138, 5442 (Aerial Photograph). SDV238391.

Fox, A., 1954, Celtic Fields and Farms on Dartmoor in Light of Recent Excavations at Kestor, 87 (Article in Serial). SDV231175.

St. Joseph, J. K. S., 1967, Unknown title, 60-61 (Article in Serial). SDV219152.

Ancient Monuments, 1970, Settlement and hut circles on Throwleigh Common (Schedule Document). SDV238258.

Hut D. North of the rest of the group.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1974, SX69SE27, 31/7/1974 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV238264.

Hut circle at SX6572 9107 depicted on the Ordnance Survey 6 inch map series (1963).
An 8.3 metre diameter hut circle with 0.5 metre high single walling and a south-east entrance. Published survey 1/2500 revised.
There are probably more hut circles and a contemporary field system, but these are obscured by tall bracken.

National Monument Record, 1977, SX6590, 1, 2 (Aerial Photograph). SDV238267.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Visible on aerial photographs and recorded on map overlay.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 148951, 10/4/1997 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

At SX65699091. Stone hut circle forming part of a prehistoric settlement within a coaxial field system on Throwleigh Common. Diameter 7.5 metres. Earthwork wall 2.4 metres wide, 0.7 metres high. Internal area 44.15 metres. A 100 degree facing gap may represent a doorway. Dense gorse and bracken cover.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 196-8, Map 39, Figure 39.11 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut Circle '15' of 6.4 metres diameter in a small D-shaped enclosure within a rectangular field on the north side of 'Throwleigh Common settlement'. It has a small annex of 2.0 metres diameter built onto one side.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Prehistoric Survey Information (Cartographic). SDV345521.

Hut circle shown on survey.

Newman, P., 2007, Throwleigh Common, Throwleigh, Devon. A 'Premier Archaeological Landscape' within Dartmoor National Park Level 2 Survey Report, 7 (Report - Survey). SDV360261.

Hut 1 SX6572 9108.
The hut is contained within a small roughly rectangular enclosure. It has a diameter of 8 metres with walls up to 3 metres thick and 0.5 metres high. The entrance survives on the south-east of the circumference with two jambs in situ of 0.7 metres high. The opening is 1.2 metres wide. The wall remains consist of fairly robust earthen bank containing some, mostly displaced, stone.

Dartmoor National Park Authority, 2017, Site visits to Throwleigh Common (Personal Comment). SDV360253.

Site visited 4/07/2017 and plotted using GPS (SX65725 91085). Area was densely vegetated and highly overgrown with bracken. Hard to find the circle due to excess vegetation and grass growing over rocks. Difficult to gain access to centre of circle due to the vegetation so GPS reading taken from edge of circle.

Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1018916 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7297 - Survey of Throwleigh Common Premier Archaeological Landscape

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