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Summary

Hut circle of 4.3 metres diameter with walls 0.5 metres high within the settlement west of Buttern Hill. Evidence of a former field system associated with the hut is supplied by fragmentary rickles of orthostats.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1021215: Part of a coaxial field system, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Buttern Hill
• SHINE: Remains of a coaxial field system, prehistoric settlements and cairns on Buttern Hill, surviving as earthworks and rubble banks and a length of the Bradford Leat

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68NE204
• National Monuments Record: SX68NE51
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1572363
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68NE/101
• Old SAM Ref: 34479

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

National Monument Record, 1977, SX6588, 1 (Aerial Photograph). SDV256046.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SX68NE51 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV270674.

(23/07/1974) SX65238819 and SX65228812. Two hut circles, internal diameters 4.8m and 4.3m respectively, with single walling up to 0.5m high. The north hut has a possible entrance in the south-west, the south hut has no discernible entrance.
At SX65278814, a further hut survives only as a semi-circle of stones up to 0.6m high. All are on a gentle south-west slope. Evidence of a former field system associated with the huts is supplied by fragmentary rickles of orthostats.
(13/07/1978) Situated at SX65218824 and SX65248824 are another two small hut circles 4.5m in diameter with single stone walling up to 0.4m high. Both have possible entrance gaps in the south. They lie amid the remains of a formerly extensive prehistoric field system. Located during field investigation. Surveyed at 1:2500 on Antiquity Model.

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

One hut circle visible and recorded.

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

Hut circle visible on aerial photograph.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 190-192, Map 38, Site 2 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut circle within Site '2' to the west of Buttern Hill.

Ancient Monuments, 2003/2004, Scheduling amendment (Schedule Document). SDV275366.

(21/01/2004) Part of a coaxial field system, Prehistoric settlements and cairns on 'Buttern Hill'. The monument also includes a length of the 'Bradford Leat'.

Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2023, National Heritage List for England, 1021215 (National Heritage List for England). SDV365228.

Within Scheduled area.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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