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Summary

Hut measures 3.5 metres by 3.3 metres internally with a boulder/ slab wall 0.6 metres high. The interior appears to be slightly raised.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1021055: Eylesbarrow Tin Mine and associated remains

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 NE 85
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/40/2
• Old SAM Ref: 34467

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1978, SX56NE85 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV363210.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 157155 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Site visited on 3rd June 1993. SX 5927 6827 Stone hut circle 735 metres west-south-west of Eylesbarrow, forming part of an enclosed Prehistoric settlement. Hut Circle with diameter 5.5 metres. Single orthostat wall 1.2 metres wide, 0.65 metres high. Survives as a ring of protruding orthostats. A faced on the west represents a doorway. Bracken moss and grass.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 69, Map 47, Figure 47.6 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Hut circle within settlement 'A' at Eylesbarrow West.

Fletcher, M. + Newman, P. + Probert, S., 1999, Drizzlecombe, Eylesbarrow, Ditsworthy and Hartor areas in the Plym Valley, West Devon (Report - Survey). SDV346268.

(Visited 06/07/1999) A large enclosure (MDV4035) centred at SX 5930 6822 contains at least five hut circles (see related records) and the possible sites of two others. The western part of the enclosure is overlaid by a large, disused mine shaft and its spoil tips; also fragments of a leat and a wide flat rod trench occupy part of the interior.
SX 5929 6826 Internally 3.5 metres by 3.3 metres with a boulder/ slab wall 0.6 metres high. The interior appears to be slightly raised.

Newman, P., 1999, Eylesbarrow (Ailsborough) Tin Mine (Report - Survey). SDV352201.

Newman, P., 2007, Cramber Tor Training Area Monument Baseline Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV348210.

(01/08/2006) As described in 1999.

Probert, S., 2008, Follow-Up Works to Cramber Tor Archaeological Baseline Condition Survey, Dartmoor Training Area (Report - Survey). SDV351304.

Greeves, T., 2012, Cramber Tor Training Area. Monument Condition Survey (Report - Survey). SDV350251.

Ordnance Survey, 2014, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV355681.

Hut circle shown on modern mapping in the northern part of the enclosure.

English Heritage, 2014, National Heritage List for England, 1013474 (National Heritage List for England). SDV355683.

Two enclosures and a length of the Eylesbarrow watershed reave 800 metres west-south-west of Eylesbarrow.

Probert, S. A. J., 2017, A Condition Survey of the Archaeological Sites of the Cramber Tor Training Area, Devon, 2017 (Report - Survey). SDV360392.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, WLK-DT32 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

Visited 9/8/2019. Hut circle covered with grass and bracken. Overall condition moderate. Photo taken.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs, WLK-DT32 (Photograph). SDV363073.

Photo looking 145° showing grass and bracken cover.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6239 - Eylesbarrow (Ailsborough) Tin Mine
• EDV7382 - Condition Survey of the Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV4966 - Survey of Drizzlecombe, Eylesbarrow, Ditsworthy and Hartor
• EDV6034 - Monument Condition Survey in Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV6152 - Follow-up Works to Threatened Sites in the Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV6153 - Monument Baseline Condition Survey in the Cramber Tor Training Area
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey

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