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Hut 700yds (640m) NW of Sharp Tor
Devon
This scheduled monument is the remains of a Bronze Age hut circle, positioned on the moorland northwest of Sharp Tor. The site represents domestic settlement from the later prehistory of Dartmoor, when upland areas supported scattered communities living in roundhouses built from stone and timber.
Today the visitor finds earthwork traces of the structure, visible as a low circular platform and surrounding features in the moorland turf. Like many such sites across Dartmoor, it speaks to a period when the landscape was more openly settled and cultivated than the wild country walkers encounter now.
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