Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1004575) describes two stone hut circles on the lower western slopes of Honeybag Tor, in the valley of the East Webburn River. The scheduling falls in two areas.
Both huts have rubble walls up to 1 metre wide and 0.8 metres high around an inner area 6 metres across. They sit in scattered stone left by field clearance, and the eastern one has been partly buried by a roadside bank.
Crossing, in A Hundred Years on Dartmoor, calls Honeybag Tor a remarkably fine tor at the upper end of the Widecombe valley, forming a range with Chinkwell and Bonehill Rocks above the east side of the vale.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1004575 (updated 12 November 2015), which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol 1 (1991), pages 49 to 50, and PastScape 445061. The Honeybag Tor sentence is from Crossing, A Hundred Years on Dartmoor (1902).
Period: Bronze Age
Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1004575)
Grid reference: SX 7237 7868 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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