Hut circles and enclosures near Great Nodden

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Three scheduled monuments (Historic England entries listed below)
• Where: The west-facing slope 330 m to 400 m south-east of Great Nodden, above the River Lyd

On the west-facing slope below Great Nodden, looking down to the valley of the River Lyd, Historic England records a settlement of stone hut circles and two circular enclosures. A hut circle is the low stone-and-earth wall of a round house, with the floor inside; the roofs were turf or thatch and have gone. The main monument, 330 m south-east of the summit, has six hut circles and two enclosures. The southern enclosure measures 38 m by 36 m inside, with a wall 1.7 m wide and 0.6 m high, and the northern one is 35 m across with a wall of the same width. Two huts are joined to the southern enclosure's wall, which suggests the huts came first. One of them has two rooms, 6 m and 3.9 m across. A ring of stones beside the northern enclosure's entrance probably marks another hut, and at least three huts stand unenclosed between the two enclosures, one with a doorway lined with slabs and facing west-south-west.

Two more huts lie on the eastern edge of the settlement and are scheduled on their own: one 4.8 m across inside, with its doorway facing south-west, and an oval one 5 m by 4 m.

The three scheduled monuments

Grid references are from the Historic England entries. Each entry covers one scheduled monument; a monument can hold several features.