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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1011239) describes a cluster of five stone hut circles inside a large enclosure on a south-east-facing slope overlooking the valley of the River Tavy. The huts are terraced into the hillside, with walls of stone and earth, 4 to 8 metres across inside and averaging 5.8 metres, the walls 0.5 to 0.8 metres high. They stand in a ring round an open space 45 metres north-west to south-east by 27 metres, in which further traces of occupation survive as buried features. It lies in the parish of Peter Tavy, about 1.1 km north-east of Nat Tor.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1011239, which cites Gibson, Single Monument Class Description: Stone Hut Circles (1987), the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX58SE19) and fieldwork for the Monuments Protection Programme by S. Gerrard.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1011239)
- Grid reference: SX 5505 8339 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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