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Summary

One of four hut circles within Prehistoric settlement on Chagford Common. Diameter measures 8-10 metres. Earthwork wall 2.7 metres wide, 0.8 metres high. Has been damaged by later historic cultivation. Grass and bracken covered. Additional small possible hut to the north-east recorded by Gerrard.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1018926: Three agglomerated enclosures containing stone hut circles, a cairn cemetery, post-medieval fields and tinworks on Chagford Common

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX68SE74
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 443874
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/120/13
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/120/14
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX68SE/120/5
• Old SAM Ref: 28728

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1964, RAF/F64/58/6399, 20-21 (Aerial Photograph). SDV255307.

SX 6780 8295: Cropmark of a hut circle.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 149380-81 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(29/01/1999) SX67758295 Stone hut circle forming part an enclosed prehistoric settlement on Chagford Common. Diameter 10 metres. Earthwork wall 2.7 metres wide, 0.8 metres high. Has been damaged by later historic cultivation. Grass and bracken covered.
SX67808298 Diameter 2.8 metres. Single orthostat wall 1 metre wide, 0.6 metres high. Probable hut. Survives best on the downslope (east side) where four edge set stones are clearly visible.

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 29-30, map 25 (Monograph). SDV219155.

Hut 1 in the Prehistoric settlement on Chagford Common is little more than a levelled circular platform.

Passmore, A. J., 1997, Boveycombehedd, Chagford, Devon: an archaeological investigation of a Diachronic landscape, 10-12, Figure 2 (Post-Graduate Thesis). SDV360382.

Hut 1 in Enclosure A with internal dimensions of 8 metres by 7 metres with an entrance on the south side. It gives the impression of being levelled into the hillside but without the upstanding banks of the other hut circles associated with this enclosure. This may be due to ploughing in this area.

Environment Agency WMS, 1998-2016, LiDAR DSM data JPEG image (1m resolution) (Cartographic). SDV360209.

Circular feature visible on survey.

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

Circular feature visible on aerial photograph.

Historic England, 2018, National Heritage List for England, 1018926 (National Heritage List for England). SDV360653.

'Three agglomerated enclosures containing stone hut circles, a cairn cemetery, post-medieval fields and tinworks on Chagford Common'.

Historic England, 2021-2022, NRHE to HER website, Accessed 27/04/2022 (Website). SDV364039.

(07/11/2002) Previous condition unknown. Bracken covered.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7505 - Boveycombehedd, Chagford: An Archaeological Investigation of a Diachronic Landscape

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