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Laughter Tor enclosure and hut circles
Grid ref: SX 6520 7591
On walking routes: Bellever Trail, Postbridge Trail
Main image: Photo: Nigel Cox, Wikimedia Commons
Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1018513) describes an agglomerated enclosure and two stone hut circles on the upper north-west slope of Laughter Tor. The enclosure is at least four irregular areas bounded by boulder and rubble walling. Two huts lie inside, one attached to the walling. The western hut sits in the middle of one of the enclosed areas, a circular space 4.4 metres across inside an upright-stone wall 1.8 metres wide and up to 0.8 metres high. The second is 4.3 metres across inside, with an upright-stone wall up to 2.4 metres wide and 0.9 metres high. It lies in the parish of Dartmoor Forest, about 0.9 km south-east of Bellever Tor and 1.5 km south of Bellever.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1018513, which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities (1991), page 47.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1018513)
- Grid reference: SX 6520 7591 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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