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Summary

The eastern of two stone hut circles 570 metres south-west of Down Tor. Diameter 8.0 metres. Single orthostat wall 1.5 metres wide, 1.2 metres high. Southern half of the hut has been removed by an openwork. The enclosure boundary shown by J. Butler on his 1994 map is a leat which is in turn cut by the wheelpit or adit shown on his map. Bracken and grass cover.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019572: Two stone hut circles 570m south west of Down Tor

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 NE 291
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/640
• Old SAM Ref: 24111
• Pastscape: 1342304

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 152413, 26/2/1998 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

The eastern of two stone hut circles 570 metres south-west of Down Tor. Diameter 8.0 metres. Single orthostat wall 1.5 metres wide, 1.2 metres high. Southern half of the hut has been removed by an openwork. The enclosure boundary shown by Butler is a leat which is in turn cut by the wheelpit or adit shown on his map. Bracken and grass cover.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 65, Map 47.4 (Monograph). SDV137656.

A small settlement lies of the edge of a huge tinner's excavation just uphill from the Middleworth to Deancombe track. A curved bank, now merely a step in the hillside, encloses a pair of hut circles against the dry stream bed. They measure 7.5 metres and 9.0 metres in diameter. One is partly cut through and the second has an annexe alongside.

Fletcher, M. J., 2007-2008, Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project (Report - Survey). SDV359195.

(11/01/2008) A small settlement lies of the edge of a huge tinner's excavation. A curved bank, now merely a step in the hillside, encloses a pair of hut circles respectively 7.5m and 9m in diameter. One is partly cut through and the second has an annexe alongside. Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, WLK-DT2 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited 10/06/2019. Moderate size hawthorn tree growing from inside the east north east wall. There is a path which runs across the south side where the circle is cut away by tin workings. Photo taken

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, WLK-DT2 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Visited 10/06/2019. Photo taken showing the general view looking east north east

National Monuments Record, 2019, Pastscape, 2008 data (Website). SDV362732.

Visited 11/01/2008 and Surveyed at 1:2500 scale (citing Fletcher, M., 11/01/2008, English Heritage Field Investigation). No further details included

Historic England, 2021-2022, NRHE to HER website (Website). SDV364039.

Two stone hut circles located 570 metres south-west of Down Tor. The western hut circle has an internal diameter of 8.9 metres, surrounded by a 1.3 metre wide wall standing up to 0.8 metres high. The southern half of the eastern hut circle has been destroyed by a later tin openwork, but the remaining wall measures 1.5 metre wide and up to 1.2 metres high, defining an internal area of 8 metres in diameter. Scheduled Monument Notification, 09/03/2001.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8351 - Walkhampton Premier Archaeological Landscape; Field Investigation Project

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