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Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement and tinners' buildings west of Dead Lake is a Bronze Age and later industrial settlement located on Dartmoor in Devon. The site comprises prehistoric round-house foundations of stone, characteristic of Bronze Age domestic occupation, alongside later structures associated with tin extraction and processing activities that reflect the historic importance of this region for mining. The hut circles represent evidence of sustained settlement during the Bronze Age, whilst the tinners' buildings document the continuation of economic activity on Dartmoor during the medieval and post-medieval periods when tin working intensified. The monument survives as surface archaeology, with stone foundations and building platforms visible across the landscape west of Dead Lake.
Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement and tinners' buildings west of Dead Lake is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1007983. View the official record →
Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement and tinners' buildings west of Dead Lake is a Bronze Age and later industrial settlement located on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1007983.
Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement and tinners' buildings west of Dead Lake 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 1007983.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Tin mill, tinwork and post-medieval farmstead at Outcombe, 260m east of eastern boundary of Roughtor Plantation (9.7 km), The Remains of Longstone Manor House, Wind Strew and associated features (9.8 km), Two stone hut circles and a length of associated walling 620m south east of Cuckoo Rock, forming an outlying part of a prehistoric settlement (10 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement and tinners' buildings west of Dead Lake's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Unenclosed stone hut circle settlement and tinners' buildings west of Dead Lake stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.