Details

Low stone walls or banks enclosing a circular internal floor area form the
remains of timber and turf or thatch-roofed dwellings occupied by farmers of
the Prehistoric period. They may occur singly or in larger groups and were
sometimes built within a surrounding boundary bank or enclosure. On Dartmoor
the long tradition of building stone-based round houses can be traced back
to the second millennium BC, probably from about 1700 BC onwards.
This stone hut circle lies close to the north bank of Hentor Brook and is 5m
in diameter with walls of small stone and earth, 1m in thickness and 0.3m in
height with an entrance to the south. There are other hut circles and
enclosures in the vicinity.

MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

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Reasons for Scheduling

Dartmoor is the largest expanse of open moorland in Southern Britain and
because of exceptional conditions of preservation, it is also one of the
most complete examples of an upland relict landscape in the whole country.
The great wealth and diversity of archaeological remains provide direct
evidence for human exploitation of the Moor from the early Prehistoric
period onwards. The well-preserved and often visible relationship between
settlement sites, major land boundaries, trackways, ceremonial and funerary
monuments as well as later industrial remains, gives significant insights
into successive changes in the pattern of land use through time.
This stone hut circle on the north bank of Hentor Brook is a well-preserved
example and, with other occupation sites nearby, it provides important
evidence of how early farming and stock-rearing communities lived on the Moor.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Other
Devon County SMR SX 56 NE-181,

Source: Historic England