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Two stone hut circles and part of a coaxial field system at Frenchbeer Rock is a Bronze Age or Iron Age settlement site located on Dartmoor in Devon. The two hut circles represent the domestic structures of an ancient farming community, their stone foundations surviving as archaeological evidence of prehistoric habitation. The associated coaxial field system, characterised by parallel field boundaries that extend across the landscape in a regular pattern, indicates an organised approach to agricultural land management and reflects the pastoral economy of the settlement. Together, these elements provide material evidence of settlement patterns and land use practices during the later prehistoric period in southwestern England.
Two stone hut circles and part of a coaxial field system at Frenchbeer Rock is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017483. View the official record →
Two stone hut circles and part of a coaxial field system at Frenchbeer Rock is a Bronze Age or Iron Age settlement site located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017483.
Two stone hut circles and part of a coaxial field system at Frenchbeer Rock 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 1017483.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including A prehistoric settlement with enclosures, an irregular aggregate field system and cairn north of Bellever Tor (8.9 km), Two irregular aggregate field systems with associated settlements, part of a coaxial field system, boundary stones and historic fields on Riddon Ridge (9.3 km), A cairn and cist 380m west and a cairn and standing stone 370m south west of Bellever Tor, forming an outlying part of a cairn cemetery (9.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Two stone hut circles and part of a coaxial field system at Frenchbeer Rock'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.
Two stone hut circles and part of a coaxial field system at Frenchbeer Rock stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.