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Summary

A double-walled hut circle in the centre of a pound with a doorway to the south-east. The centre has been flattened against the slope.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthwork and walling remains of a Bronze Age enclosure with internal hut circle south-east of Sharpitor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX78SE7
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 445596
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX78SE/32

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Cambridge University Collection, CUC/RC8-X, 44 (Aerial Photograph). SDV314869.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1823, 4045 (Aerial Photograph). SDV121530.

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1995, 4345-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDV224714.

The pound and hut circle at SX 77328134 are visible faintly but neither the other pound nor any trace of a field system could be seen on air photographs. At SX 77308145 there appears to be an unenclosed hut circle.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1953, SX78SE7 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV280125.

(18/05/1953) SX 77328136 Hut Circles (NR).
At the published positiion is a pound with a double-walled hut circle at its centre. The pound has a western entrance at SX 77328134, with one side stone still standing. The central hut circle has walls 7.0m internal diameter and 0.7m high and it has a south-east entrance. Its centre has been cut into the hillslope. Seventy metres to the west of this pound is another with a central hut circle, at SX 77268135, of similar dimensions, but not in such good condition. A central boulder appears to have rolled from above.
On the south-east slopes of Sharpitor and on the ridge of Lustleigh Cleave to the south-west are many field banks and lynchets, and in one place some rig and furrow.

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

A small enclosure is visible on 1946 RAF aerials with one hut circle within it (see SX78SE/31).

Environment Agency WMS, 1998-2016, LiDAR DTM data JPEG image (1m resolution) (Cartographic). SDV360208.

Irregular enclosure with central hut visible on the lidar data.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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