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Summary

One of three hut circles east of Bush Down. Large hut circle of 8.8 metres diameter with wall of massive upright boulders. Walls abutt onto a prehistoric field wall which links this hut circle with hut to the south. Overgrown with heather and grass.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1003058: Three hut circles E of Bush Down

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68SE15
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443796
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/33
• Old SAM County Ref: 972B

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ormerod, G. W., 1864, On the Hut Circles on the Eastern Side of Dartmoor, 304 (Article in Serial). SDV304174.

Two hut circles noted at Bush Down, beside the Moretonhampstead to Tavistock road, of approximately 6 metres and 7.75 metres diameter.

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Northern of two 'Hut Circles' shown on 19th century map with a wall in between them.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

Northern of two 'Hut Circles' shown on early 20th century map.

Royal Air Force, 1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2149, 4316 (Aerial Photograph). SDV282746.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SX68SE15 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV314534.

(18/06/1978) SX 6849 8216: Two crude hut circles situated on a north west facing slope at around 1475 feet OD.
'B' at SX 6849 8217 is of similar construction with a diameter of 8.5 metres and a possible funnelled entrance in the north east.
Both are in poor condition. Surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD.

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

Two hut circles are visible on the 1947 aerial photograph, at SX 6849 8217 and at SX 6849 8215.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 28, Map 25 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Northern of two hut circles of 8.8 metres diameter within Homestead '2' to the east of Bush Down.

Newman, P., 2002, Headland Warren and the Birch Tor and Vitifer Mines, M. Fletcher (Report - Survey). SDV363213.

(20/10/2000) Two robbed hut circles linked by a fragmentary boulder wall to the Shapley Common parallel reave system (SX 68 SE 178). It is not possible to discern from the visible evidence the relationship of the huts to the reave system and were part of a free standing enclosure.
SX 6849 8217: An impressive hut circle with a substantial though robbed double-faced wall; large slabs and boulders survive, one or two stand to a maximum 0.8 metres in height. The interior, levelled into the slope, is 8.6 metres across; the entrance is apparently in the northern side.
Surveyed at 1:2000 scale

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

Visible on aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey, 2022, Mastermap 2022 (Cartographic). SDV364674.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2022, National Heritage List for England, 1003058 (National Heritage List for England). SDV364675.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7139 - Headland Warren and the Birch Tor and Vitifer Mines Survey (Ref: A1/20/2001, A1/34/2002)

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