Hut circles at Tunhill Rocks

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1003286) describes two enclosed stone hut circles on the east side of Tunhill Rocks, overlooking the valley of the East Webburn River and part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field system. A D-shaped enclosure 26 metres long by 20 metres wide, with stone and earth banks that abut Tunhill Rocks and part of a reave, holds both huts. It lies in the parish of Widecombe in the Moor, about 0.4 km south-west of Pil Tor and 1.7 km south-east of Widecombe-in-the-Moor.

The eastern hut has a double upright-stone wall around a circular inside 7 metres across, the wall up to 1.5 metres wide and 0.5 metres high. The western hut is rectangular, up to 3 metres long and 2 metres wide inside, with a rubble coursed wall up to 0.7 metres wide. Both were excavated in 1896, which showed that both had south-facing doorways. The finds included parts of a thick-walled, decorated and much used cooking pot, a drinking vessel, a flint scraper and flakes, charcoal and a piece of slate. Other remains nearby, some scheduled and some not, are outside this scheduling.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1003286 (updated 5 November 2015), which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol 1 (1991), map 9, and vol 5 (1997), page 128, and PastScape 445121.

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1003286)
• Grid reference: SX 7318 7579 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)