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Summary

Southern of two hut circles with a short length of contemporary walling at the foot of a clitter slope above the right bank of Spanish Lake of 3.4 metres north-south by 3.8 metres internally with walls 1.1 metes wide and 0.5 metres high

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1013058: Two stone hut circles north of Spanish Lake, Lee Moor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX56SE7
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 439124
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56SE/16
• Old SAM County Ref: 580
• Old SAM Ref: 10695

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Early Bronze Age to Early Iron Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 301 BC (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX56SE7, SX56SE7 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV138919.

(01/06/1950) Two hut circles on moorland. Walls consist of small stones covered with turf. Hut A diameter 4.5m has an entrance to the south-west. Hut B diameter 5.0m has no obvious entrance.

Ordnance Survey, 1975, 75/369/145 (Aerial Photograph). SDV139126.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977, SX56SE7, SX56SE7 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV138920.

(24/08/1977) SX 58636434: Two hut circles lie on a gentle, well drained, west facing slope at 355m. above OD. Their average internal diameter is 3.8m; one is terraced and has type 2, orthostatic walling, 0.7m wide, in very poor condition; the other is not terraced and has fragmentary walling about 0.8m wide. There is a short, arc of walling, 1.0m wide leading from one of the hut circles, possibly the remains of an enclosure wall. (Type 2 huts: SX 56 NE 19).
1:10 000 Survey on PFD.

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

Not recorded in the project.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 162-3, Map 51, Figure 51.6 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Southern of two hut circles at Settlement 'A' at 'Upper Spanish Lake'.

Griffiths, F. M., 1994, Notes on features on Lee Moor (Personal Comment). SDV139113.

NB: There is a considerable similarity of description between these sites and those of the cairn records to the east (MDV2418 and MDV42216). However, both pairs were visited by the same Ordnance Survey investigator on the same day, and given different numbers.

Probert, S. A. J., 2002, Field Investigator's Comments (Report - Survey). SDV147446.

(23/04/2002) Centred SX 5863 6435. Two hut circles and a short length of contemporary walling lie at the foot of a clitter slope above the right bank of Spanish Lake.
SX 5863 6434. A well-preserved hut circle measuring 3.4m north-south by 3.8m internally with walls 1.1m wide and 0.5m high. Both huts are terraced into the gently sloping hillside to provide level interiors.

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

Hut circle shown on survey.

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

Visible on the aerial photography.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UP-HT7 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(16/03/2020) Condition assessed as very good; no damage agents currently affecting this feature.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Image taken during March 2020 visit.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

Southern of two 'Hut Circles' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1013058 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

These two hut circles lie on a west-facing slope at the western end of Lee Moor, north of Spanish Lake. They are built of earth and stone and are 5 metres and 4.5 metres in diameter with walls 1 metre in thickness and 0.5 metres in height and entrances in the west and north-west respectively. The larger, eastern hut circle has traces of a bank leading from its north-east side and curving back towards the other hut.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape

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