North Hessary Tor settlement: nine huts and later shelters

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1011177) describes nine stone hut circles, four post-medieval shelters and a field boundary, part of an unenclosed hut circle settlement on the lower south-facing slope of North Hessary Tor, above the valley of the River Meavy. One hut is oval, another triangular and the rest circular, 3.1 to 8 metres across inside, averaging 5.5 metres. The walls are 0.4 to 1.1 metres high, averaging 0.71 metres. One hut has an annex, seven have visible doorways, five have later structures built into them and one is attached to a boundary wall, a bank 36 metres long, 2.5 metres wide and 0.3 metres high. It lies in the parish of Walkhampton, about 1.1 km north-west of Hart Tor and 1.4 km west of Princetown.

Three small stone shelters sit inside older huts and two more are attached to the outside. They are probably post-medieval temporary shelters made during military training or tin working nearby. A broken field system lies south-west of the monument but is not included, because too little of the fields can be seen to judge their character and extent.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1011177, which cites Fleming, The Dartmoor Reaves (1988), pages 72 to 82, Gibson, Single Monument Class Description: Stone Hut Circles (1987), the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX57SE1) and fieldwork for the Monuments Protection Programme by S. Gerrard.

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1011177)
• Grid reference: SX 5769 7305 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)

Historic England listed designation: Nine huts, five post-medieval shelters and a field boundary forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 1180m south of North Hessary Tor