Nine huts, five post-medieval shelters and a field boundary forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 1180m south of North Hessary Tor

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Nine huts, five post-medieval shelters and a field boundary forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 1180m south of North Hessary Tor is a Bronze Age settlement located on Dartmoor in Devon. The site comprises nine stone hut circles of prehistoric date arranged without formal boundary structures, alongside five later post-medieval stone shelters and a field boundary that represents subsequent land management practices. The hut circles are characteristic of Bronze Age settlement patterns on the moorland, where pastoral communities established seasonal or permanent occupation sites. The presence of post-medieval structures demonstrates continued utilisation of the location across later periods, indicating the enduring value of this moorland location for human settlement and resource exploitation.

Nine huts, five post-medieval shelters and a field boundary forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 1180m south of North Hessary Tor is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011177. View the official record →

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