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Summary

One of two hut circles in area of later ridge and furrow on Wigford Down. Defined by low rubble walls measuring up to 2 metres wide and 0.5 metres high, which surrounds an internal circular area of up to 9 metres in diameter.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Earthworks and walling of Bronze age parallel reave field system with hut circle settlements and cairns, plus deserted Medieval settlements with long houses and pillow mounds, on Wigford Down
• Scheduled Monument 1002548: Two hut circles S of Catstor Down

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NW/7
• Old SAM County Ref: 561
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1951, SX56NW13 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV251284.

Hut circles A and B (22 feet and 26 feet in diameter respectively) with remains of rectangular fields around, very messed up. Large fields, with later ridge and furrow ploughing. Depicted on Ordnance Survey 6 inch 1907 historic map.

Fox, A., 1954, Celtic Fields and Farms on Dartmoor in Light of Recent Excavations at Kestor, 102 (Article in Serial). SDV231175.

Two huts, part of two pairs of huts on north Wigford Down with two adjoining fields.

Price, D. G., 1978, Settlement and ancient fields on Wigford Down, 69-75 (Article in Serial). SDV220620.

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

Visible on Royal Air Force 1946 aerial photographs and recorded on map overlay.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 78, Map 48.1 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Butler depicts this hut circle in area of Bronze Age settlement on the Down, labelled D; one of four huts closely associated in area of rectangular fields later utilised in the medieval period; these fields are overlain by an area of ridge and furrow.

GetMapping, 1999 - 2000, Dartmoor 1999-2000 1:1250 Aerial Photography (digital) (Aerial Photograph). SDV345751.

Visible on the aerial photography.

Ordnance Survey, 2017, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359962.

Depicted on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2017, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV359963.

Historic England, 2017, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV359963.
The monument, which falls into two separate areas of protection, includes part of a stone hut circle settlement within a coaxial field system situated on the lower northern slopes of Wigford Down in the upper valley of a tributary to the River Meavy. The two stone hut circles are defined by low rubble walls measuring up to 2 metres wide and 0.5 metres high, which surround an internal circular area of up to 9 metres in diameter.

Newman, P., 2020, Wigford Down Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon. A new survey (Report - Survey). SDV363780.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8316 - Wigford Down PAL survey

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