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Summary

Hut has an internal diameter of 3m to 3.5m with walls 1.1m to 1.7m wide and 0.25m high, composed of medium and large stones forming a low, partly turf-covered bank. There are internal facing stones on the NE adjacent to a well-defined, 1.2m wide, entrance which is lined by transverse slabs. Lies close to a reave.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1011496: Stone hut circle 210m south of the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar on Cox Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57NW95
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 439984
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57NW/184
• Old SAM Ref: 22232

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1980, SX57NW95 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV221765.

(28/10/1980) At SX 53087597, a little to the N of a reave (SX 57 NW 42) there is a hut circle of Type 1 (SX 56 SE 19) in poor condition. The levelled interior has an internal diameter of 3.6m. with walling 1.5m. wide and 0.3m. high. There is a well defined entrance on the NE (see ground photograph).
There is no field system to be seen in the vicinity.
Surveyed at 1:2500 (see plan on SX 57 NW 42) and at 1:10 000 on MSD.

Hemery, E., 1983, High Dartmoor, 961 (Monograph). SDV249702.

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

Not recorded.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(11/12/1987) SX 5308 7597: A hut circle situated on a shelf in light clitter below a prominent outcrop on the S slope of Cox Tor. It has an internal diameter of 3m to 3.5m with walls 1.1m to 1.7m wide and 0.25m high, composed of medium and large stones forming a low, partly turf-covered bank. There are internal facing stones on the NE adjacent to a well-defined, 1.2m wide, entrance which is lined by transverse slabs.
An E to W reave, SX 57 NW 42, passes by a few metres to the S.

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

(1992) Internal diameter measures 3.5m. Rubble bank wall 1.7m wide, 0.2m high. Clearly defined stone slab lined doorway to NE. A length of field boundary passing a few metres to S is a reave forming upper part of coaxial field system.

National Mapping Programme, post-1985, Dartmoor NMP Transcription data (Cartographic). SDV364293.

Ring of stonework depicted on the NMP identification layer on mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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