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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1003197) describes two stone hut circles that belong to an unenclosed settlement within the Rippon Tor coaxial field system, on the eastern slopes of Saddle Tor close to the source of the River Sig. Each is a circular inside 7.7 metres across, in rubble walls up to 2 metres wide and 1 metre high, and they lie about 5 metres apart. Both are terraced into the slope, and the eastern hut has a possible entrance to the south-west. Other remains nearby, some scheduled and some not, are outside this scheduling. It lies in the parish of Ilsington, about 1.8 km south-west of Haytor Vale.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1003197 (updated 17 November 2015), which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol 1 (1991), page 21, and PastScape 445026.
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