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Summary

Hut circle to the north-west of Barn Hill of 8.4 metres diameter with walls 1.7 metres wide by 0.6 metres high. One of a group of three huts previously thought to be cairns

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020013: Ring cairn 920m south west of Little Staple Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX57NW65
• National Monuments Record: SX57SW89
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1362094
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 439904
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX57SW/122
• Old SAM Ref: 34428

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• (Former Type) RING CAIRN (Constructed, Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• HUT CIRCLE (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1980, SX57NW65 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV225228.

(28/10/1980) On a slight SW slope at the N end of Barn Hill are three hut circles of Type (SX 56 SE 19) all turf-covered and with levelled interiors. They are within the peripheral and poorly defined part of a field system to the SW where there is also a settlement (SX 57 SW 23).
At SX53017499. One of three hut circles. A substantial hut with internal diametre 8.4 metres and walling 1.7 metres wide, 0.6 metres high. The rubble revetted by a number of slabs on the inner face. No visible entrance.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD (the northern-most only) and at 1:2500 (see plan).

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

(09/07/1991) Centred SX 5301 7499. Three hut circles survive on the N side of Barn Hill, 60m S of the Cox Tor carpark. They occupy W to WSW facing slopes at 325m above OD.
The central hut, SX 5301 7499, has a diameter of 7.0m. The bank is 0.4m high and 2.5m wide and is composed of rubble with some larger stones. An arc of edge set stones is visible on the SW side. There is no clear entrance.
No survey action.

Turner, J. R., 1990, Ring Cairns, Stone Circles and Related Monuments on Dartmoor, 70, b10 (Article in Serial). SDV229817.

Whitchurch Common "embanked stone circle"; an annular bank of earth and/or stone with inner edge of orthostats. Internal diameter 6.5 metres with bank 1.8 metres wide and 0.3 metres high.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 33-4, Map 44, Figure 44.8 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Group of three hut circles to the north-west of Barn Hill and south-west of the Cox Tor carpark. Here ancient walls have been robbed almost to ground level and the few remaining hut circles are mostly little more than circular depressions in the hillside. Grinsell identified one of these as a truncated cairn.

GeoInformation Group Ltd, 2010, 1:625 2010 Colour (12.5cm resolution) (Aerial Photograph). SDV346026.

Visible on aerial photograph.

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

Three 'Hut Circles' shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2021, National Heritage List for England, 1020013 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364016.

A ring cairn situated 920 metres south west of Little Staple Tor. The cairn survives as a 2 metres wide rubble bank containing a large number of edge set stones. This bank stands up to 0.6 metres high and surrounds an internal circular area measuring 6.6 metres in diameter. A 3 metres wide and 0.1 metres deep ditch surrounds the ring bank.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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