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Hut circle settlement where the Blatchford Brook meets the Erme
Grid ref: SX 6354 6381
On walking routes: Two Moors Way
Main image: Photo: Roger Cornfoot, Wikimedia Commons
Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1002608) describes a partly enclosed stone hut circle settlement, with a later tinner's shelter, east of the junction of the Blatchford Brook and the River Erme. The settlement is an oval enclosure with a strongly built, partly double-faced wall up to 2 metres wide and 0.7 metres high. Round the inside of the wall is a series of courts and pounds, and at least two stone hut circles. It lies in the parish of Harford.
A further hut is attached to the outside on the west, together with a small rectangular tinner's shelter. The ruined banks of two more hut circles lie to the south-west, and a free-standing hut circle stands outside the east end. Other remains nearby are scheduled separately.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1002608 (updated 11 November 2015), which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol 4 (1993), and PastScape 442190.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1002608)
- Grid reference: SX 6354 6381 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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