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Summary

A ruined hut circle visible as a circular platform 4.7m in diameter, set into a north slope to a depth of 0.4m. The platform is edged with a few stones protruding from the turf but the entrance is not visible. The hut type is indeterminate.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1010476: One of two stone hut circles on Corringdon Ball, north of Corringdon Farm
• SHINE: Earthworks and surviving stone-walls of Bronze Age parallel reaves, field system and hut circles on Corringdon Ball and Treeland Downs, Bronze Age hut circles and medieval settlement at Newland's Brakes and pillow mounds on south side of Corringdon Ball

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX66SE126
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 442137
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX66SE/340
• Old SAM County Ref: 10869

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1946 - 1949, Royal Air Force Aerial Photographs, 2494 4076-7 (Aerial Photograph). SDV342938.

Photograph taken on 11th March 1948.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1979, SX66SE126 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV151897.

(09/07/1979) At SX 67416064 there is a ruined hut circle, visible as a circular platform 4.7 metres in diameter, set into a north slope to a depth of 0.4 metres. The platform is edged with a few stones protruding from the turf but the entrance is not visible. The hut type is indeterminate. Found during field work. Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD.

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

Three possible hut circles visible on 1948 aerial photograph at SX67406066, SX67416065 and SX67376065. Vis=estimated -/-/1990 (ancient monuments) at sx67426064. Diam 9m; walls 1m thick, 0.5m high. Entrance to s (am).

Butler, J., 1993, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Four - The South-East, 87-9, Map 56, Figure 56.5 (Monograph). SDV337765.

Hut Circle '6' at 'Corringdon Ball field system' is in the south-west corner of a D-shaped enclosure with a further hut circle to the south-east.

Ordnance Survey, 2020, MasterMap 2020 (Cartographic). SDV363413.

'Hut Circle' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2020, National Heritage List for England, 1010476 (National Heritage List for England). SDV363414.

This stone hut circle is one of two on the southern slope of Corringdon Ball, north of Corringdon Farm. It lies south of the contemporary field or reave system on Corringdon Ball and forms part of a concentration of occupation evidence surviving in the area. The hut circle is 9 metres in diameter and has walls 1 metre in thickness and 0.5 metres in height, with an entrance to the south.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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