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Summary

A hut circle attached to a rectangular enclosure. The hut has much stone in situ, including large orthostats and the walls are thick. Measures 8.5 metres in diameter.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1002499: Huts and fields NE of Rippon Tor
• SHINE: Earthworks and stone walls of a Bronze Age parallel reave system on Mountsland, Halshanger and Horridge Commons, comprising the remains of a field system, hut circle settlements, enclosures and cairns, and surface remains of 19th century Hemsworthy Mine

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX77NE20
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 445029
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77NE/9/2
• Old SAM County Ref: 347

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 42 AD (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824, 3121-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDV352344.

(SX 751 757) Enclosure & Hut Circle (NR).

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1953/1961, SX77NE20 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV283013.

(18/04/1953) Hut circle at SX7519 7579, fern and heather covered. It has an entrance on the south-east side. Hut is within a field system whose banks consist of large inserted stones.
(04/11/1953) A pound, associated with the hut circle, is clearly visible, its fragmentary wall being composed of large boulders.
(21/04/1960) The hut circle, at SX 7517 7572, is of double walled type with walls up to 1.5m. high. It is within a rectangular pound, centred at SX 7517 7571, bounded by a wall of large stones, some set on edge, with a small but well defined enclosure in the SE corner and traces of another in the SW corner.
Ground photograph: see AO/60/13/6. A 25" survey has been made of the pound and hut circle.
Associated with the pound is a field system. In the vicinity of the pound the bounding walls are well defined with large stones set on edge but elsewhere the banks bounding the fields are low and fragmentary. The field system is centred at SX 7514 7570.

National Monuments Record, 1977, SX7573 NMR, 3 (Aerial Photograph). SDV283016.

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

Visible on aerial photography and recorded on map overlay.

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

Visible on the aerial photography.

Newman, P., 2015, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, 50, figure 19 (Report - Survey). SDV359145.

Hut circle attached to a rectangular enclosure 525 metres east-north-east of Rippon Tor. A hut circle attached to a rectangular enclosure. The hut has much stone in situ, including large orthostats and the walls are thick. Measures 8.5 metres in diameter. Condition is stable, SX75152 75250.

Ordnance Survey, 2016, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359352.

Depicted on the modern mapping.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, RT9 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited January 2019. Recent swaling has made a noticeable improvement to visibility of the hut. Good condition. Photo taken

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, RT9 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Visited January 2019. Photo taken looking east

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6836 - Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape survey

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