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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1016639) describes a partly enclosed hut circle settlement on a north-east-facing slope of Steeperton Tor, above the Steeperton Brook. It is a group of rubble banks forming at least five incomplete enclosures with a large number of huts among them. The huts are circular or oval banks round spaces of 5 to 30 square metres, averaging 14.85, with walls 0.3 to 0.7 metres high, averaging 0.49. Ten have visible doorways and seven are butted by enclosure walling, and one is attached to an enclosure. All are of single-orthostat or rubble bank construction. It lies in the parish of Dartmoor Forest, about 1.3 km south-east of Oke Tor.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1016639, which cites Probert and others, Dartmoor Royal Forest: SX68NW (1993), and fieldwork for the Monuments Protection Programme by S. Gerrard (1998).
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