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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1004585) describes an enclosed stone hut circle, a boundary bank and a further hut circle south-east of Brisworthy, overlooking the Plym valley. The enclosure is a roughly oval area up to 40 metres long by 25 metres wide, defined by a double upright-stone wall, with one stone hut circle inside it and an outlying hut linked to it by a short connecting wall. The huts have double upright-stone walls up to 1.5 metres wide and 0.7 metres high, around interiors up to 8 metres across. A farm leat and a track cut the enclosure. A further hut circle to the south is not scheduled, because it has not been formally assessed. It lies in the parish of Meavy, about 1 km south-west of Legis Tor and 2.6 km south of Sheepstor.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1004585 (updated 3 November 2015), which cites PastScape 438653.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1004585)
- Grid reference: SX 5621 6502 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“The only thing that brought us home on long summer evenings was the ring of a handbell by Mum standing at the field gate calling us in for supper.”
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