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Summary

One of three hut circles and part of a former enclosure wall lie on the ridge crest 250m north-west of Little Trowlesworthy Tor. A small hut circle measuring 4.0m north-south by 4.5m internally with walls 1.6m wide and 0.5m high. All the huts display level interiors and none possess identifiable entrances.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Enclosed Bronze Age hut circle settlement at Trowlesworthy Warren, comprising at least three hut circles and the remains of roughly circular enclosure
• Scheduled Monument 1015748: An enclosed settlement, length of reave, two vermin traps and a pillow mound 770m east of Trowlesworthy Warren House

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/234
• Old SAM Ref: 28654
• Pastscape: 439387

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Price, D. G., 1977, Settlement at Trowlesworthy Warren, 44, Figure 1 (Article in Serial). SDV150433.

Enclosure on Trowlesworthy Warren with two hut circles about 5 metres in diameter. Largely clear but some large boulders in the interior. Only part of the enclosure wall is visible, in the form of a low mound.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX56SE100 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV175051.

(02/06/1977) two huts with a possible third, no mention of enclosure on the north-west facing slope at 310m. The huts are of type 2 and in poor condition.
Hut at SX 5749 6476 has an internal diameter of 5m with walling 1m thick by 0.3m high. Entrance is not clear.

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

Not recorded on aerial photograph.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140792 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Hut 2 at SX57506477 is 4.5 metres in diameter, surrounded by a 1.4 metre wide and 0.6 metre high double orthostatic wall. A north-west facing gap in the hut wall may represent an original doorway.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 158, Map 51, Figure 51.1 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Prehistoric Enclosure (O) to the north-west of Little Trowlesworthy Tor shown on the map and indicated to the north-east on Figure 51.1 as three hut circles and the west side of an enclosure.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape, 90, 102. 376c (Report - non-specific). SDV143510.

Circular structure 4 metres diameter internally and 7 metres externally with walls up to 0.45 metres high. Hut has some large outer and inner facing orthostats. A gap in the north-west sector may indicate an entrance.

Probert, S. A. J. + Fletcher, M. J., 2002, Plym Valley survey (Report - Survey). SDV350782.

(20/05/2002) Centred SX 5748 6477. The robbed remains of three hut circles and part of a former enclosure wall lie on the ridge crest 250m north-west of Little Trowlesworthy Tor.
SX 5749 6479. A small hut circle measuring 4.0m north-south by 4.5m internally with walls 1.6m wide and 0.5m high.
All the huts display level interiors and none possess identifiable entrances.

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

Three huts and enclosure wall shown on survey information. These lie slightly further to the north-east than can be seen on the aerial photography.

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

Remains of the enclosure wall and hut circles visible on the aerial photography.

Bluesky International Ltd/Getmapping PLC, 2015-2017, 2015-2017 Aerial Photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDV361462.

Visible on the aerial photograph.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7369 - Survey of Granite Loading Bays at Trowlesworthy, Devon
• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey

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