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Summary

A hut circle sited on the moderately sloping northern slope to the east of Holwell Tor.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthworks and surviving stone walls of a prehistoric settlement on Haytor Down including a hut circle and field boundaries with a Medieval settlement

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX77NE38
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1198625
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77NE/43

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1960, SX77NE10 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV282866.

Third of three hut circles near Haytor Quarries in Holwell Tor. (26/04/1960) Double wall construction but no visible entrance.

National Monument Record, 1977, NMR SX7577, 1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV282979.

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

Visible and recorded.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume One - The East, Map 1, Site 4, Figure 1.4 (Monograph). SDV299725.

A single hut with well preserved double walls was built near the junction of three reaves which show faintly above the turf. The banks are discontinuous, but those oriented north to south are at right angles to the reave 100 metres downhill and probably once continued on to it.

Newman, P., 1999, 2002, Haytor Down, Ilsington, Devon (Revised) (Report - Survey). SDV346395.

(20/01/1999) A hut circle sited on the moderately sloping northern slope to the east of Holwell Tor. The internal diameter is 7m and the low, turf-covered walls are up to 0.5m thick. The hut has a level interior and several orthostats remain in the wall. There is no visible entrance. The hut adjoins a ruined wall which is likely to be part of a contemporary field system (SX 77 NE 31). Depicted and described by Butler (1991). See RCHME 1999 for plan.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 2002, Haytor Down: The Archaeology (Plan - measured). SDV359685.

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

Hut circle visible on aerial photograph.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7021 - Haytor Down: Survey Report (Ref: A1/2/1999)

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