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Eight stone hut circles and a shieling forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke is a Bronze Age settlement located on Dartmoor in Devon. The site comprises multiple domestic structures arranged without formal enclosure, typical of upland settlement patterns from the second millennium before Christ. The hut circles display the characteristic dry-stone construction of Dartmoor prehistory, with circular wall foundations of substantial diameter indicating permanent or semi-permanent occupation. The inclusion of a shieling, a seasonal pastoral shelter, suggests the settlement served mixed agricultural purposes combining sedentary habitation with transhumant pastoralism practised across the moorland landscape.
Eight stone hut circles and a shieling forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011561. View the official record →
Eight stone hut circles and a shieling forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke is a Bronze Age settlement located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011561.
Eight stone hut circles and a shieling forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1011561.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including A stone circle, standing stone, cairn, recumbent stone and stone alignment on Longash Common (8.9 km), Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement, two cairns and a route marker 325m north west of Yellowmeade Farm (8.9 km), Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 200m west of Yellowmeade Farm (9.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Eight stone hut circles and a shieling forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Eight stone hut circles and a shieling forming part of the unenclosed stone hut circle settlement at Watern Oke stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.