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Summary

A freestanding hut with a short length of enclosure wall running parallel around the exterior. The hut is visible as a turf-covered bank built into a slight slope. It has a level interior but no definable entrance. This hut measures 10.0 metres in diameter with walls 2.0 metres thick and 0.8 metres high.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Dartmeet Parallel Reave System. Earthworks of an extensive area of prehistoric remains including complex field system, numerous hut circles, enclosures and cairns, overlain by medieval remains including Vaghill Warren, farmsteads and a large field syste

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67SE123
• National Monuments Record: SX67SE296
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1472211
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443216

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• ENCLOSURE (Constructed, Medieval - 1066 AD (Between) to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume One - The East, 130 (Monograph). SDV299725.

Hut circle depicted on Butler's map. Other details: Map 15, 3.

Gerrard, S., 2004, List of Sites Remaining to be Considered for Designation on Dartmoor (Un-published). SDV345444.

Part of Dartmeet coaxial field system (Northern Part) which was considered for designation as a Scheduled Ancient Monument in 2004. Other details: Site 43.

Newman, P., 2008, Dartmeet Premier Archaeological Landscape (PAL) Field Investigation Project (Report - Survey). SDV347061.

(14/03/2008) Three confirmed hut circles, one possible and one doubtful hut circle on the lower south slope of Corndon Tor. Two of the huts are incorporated into small rectangular enclosures, formed by subdivisions associated with reaves of the Dartmeet system. The enclosure walls are very subtle and fragmentary, consisting of low turf banks with some mostly buried stone visible in places.
SX 6867 7370 A freestanding hut with a short length of enclosure wall running parallel around the exterior. The hut is visible as a turf-covered bank built into a slight slope. It has a level interior but no definable entrance. This hut measures 10.0 metres in diameter with walls 2.0 metres thick and 0.8 metres high.
Earthwork walls with ditches on the south slopes of Corndon Tor. Remains of an abondoned field system of probable Medieval date. The banks comprise linear earthworks of 3m wide by 0.8m high with external diches of 2m wide, some partly silted.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8296 - Dartmeet Premier Archaeological Landscape (PAL) Field Investigation Project

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