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- Period: Prehistoric (Bronze Age by type)
- Status: Six scheduled monuments (Historic England entries listed below)
- Huts: Twenty-three stone hut circles in these six entries
Most of these huts belong to one large unenclosed settlement on the north-east slope of Cox Tor, overlooking the valley of the Colly Brook; four of the entries are parts of it, with 21 huts between them. There are tin prospecting pits among them, dug by tinners looking for ore. Two further huts sit on terraces on the south slope above Beckamoor Combe.
Walls are low banks of stone and earth, usually between 0.2 m and 0.9 m high, round a circular or oval floor. Several have visible doorways.
The six scheduled monuments
| Historic England entry | Grid reference | What survives |
|---|---|---|
| 1011389 | SX 53571 76488 | Sixteen hut circles, fifteen circular (2 m to 8 m across) and one D-shaped, the largest part of the settlement; eight have visible doorways. With an enclosure wall and many tin prospecting pits. |
| 1011384 | SX 53519 76360 | Three hut circles, 4 m to 6.5 m across, with a short boundary wall leading east from the southernmost. |
| 1011387 | SX 53509 76416 | One hut circle on the edge of the settlement, 4.5 m inside, with three upright stones built into its wall. |
| 1011432 | SX 53502 76639 | One terraced hut circle, 6.6 m by 4.4 m inside, with a short length of boundary wall and a tin prospecting pit. |
| 1008637 | SX 53227 76074 | One hut circle 7 m across on a terrace above Beckamoor Combe, with a south-facing doorway, on the northern edge of the coaxial field system. |
| 1011496 | SX 53086 75975 | A small hut circle 3.5 m across on a terrace below an outcrop, with a slab-lined doorway facing north-east. |
Historic England's titles measure from the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar or from the summit; grid references are from the same entries.
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