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Summary

A circular enclosure bounded by a bank consisting of small stone. Part of the interior has been filled in with cleared field stones. there is no trace of an entrance. Certain identification of the feature as a hut circle could not be made. No orthostats are visible and the construction using small stones is unusual for a hut. The exposed situation on the crest of a spur is more appropriate to a cairn but the walling, at best about 0.4 m. high, appears too regular for a cairn rim.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Remains of stone-walled prehistoric hut circle at Brake Corner, Higher Ash

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX77SW23
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 445307
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77SW/57
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX77SW23

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV283408.

Des=mrs wilkinson/local information see worksheet. Vis=according to local information ie mrs wilkinson the labour force building the boundary wall stopped short of the hut circle because they did not wish to obliterate it. However, the course of the boundary was marked with stones which were never removed so making it difficult to distinguish the hut circle. Mrs wilkinson although involved in the reclamation of furze brake is concerned that the hut circle should not be damaged (local information).

South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments, Plot 2045 (Cartographic). SDV359954.

Field no 2045 known as Furze Brake, Higher Ash, is described on the Tithe apportionment as arable land. Modern name.

Victoria County History, 1906, The Victoria History of the County of Devon, 629 (Article in Serial). SDV238214.

Hut circle at Brake Corner.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, 2378 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX77SW23, Plan (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV283404.

(19/05/1960) Hut circle at Brake Corner. Bronze Age.
A circular enclosure bounded by a bank consisting of small stone. Part of the interior has been filled in with cleared field stones. there is no trace of an entrance.
Certain identification of the feature as a hut circle could not be made. No orthostats are visible and the construction using small stones is unusual for a hut. The exposed situation on the crest of a spur is more appropriate to a cairn but the walling, at best about 0.4 m. high, appears too regular for a cairn rim.
A 25" survey has been made at SX 7021 7170.

Ordnance Survey, 1963-1996, 1963-1996 National Grid OS Metric, (1964) (Cartographic). SDV350058.

Hut at SX 7022 7170.

Beeson, M. M. R. + Masterman, M. C. H., 1979, An Archaeological Survey of Enclosed Land in Widecombe-In-The-Moor Parish, Vol I, 8 (Report - Survey). SDV337078.

(June 1979) This field is now divided in two. A very well-built, non-granite stone wall runs up as a continuation of the boundary between 2045 and 2038. It stops before reaching the hut circle which is not clearly visible. South of the field wall the field is cultivated, north of it gorse grows among rocks.

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

Two possible hut circles are visible, within a field system, at SX 70227170 and SX 70277177.

Turner, J. R., 1990, Ring Cairns, Stone Circles and Related Monuments on Dartmoor, 66, A17 (Article in Serial). SDV229817.

Turner identifies site as ring cairn. Stone ring 9.5m internal diameter. With bank 1.2m wide and 0.4m high. Overlooks Dart valley.

Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.

Hut circle marked on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV1246 - Widecombe parish Survey

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