Laughter Tor fields and hut circles, south-east

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1021045) describes a prehistoric settlement and an irregular aggregate field system on the upper south-east-facing slope of Laughter Tor, above the valley of the East Dart River. The settlement lies wholly within the field system and has at least five hut circles, circular banks round spaces of 8 to 23 square metres, averaging 14, with walls 0.4 to 0.7 metres high. Two have visible doorways, two are joined and three are attached to field boundary banks. The field system is winding low rubble banks, some lynchetted, forming at least 11 fields added over time. Later fields partly overlie it: the medieval fields are banks and ditches, and a post-medieval coursed drystone wall crosses from north-east to south-west. It lies in the parish of Dartmoor Forest, about 1.4 km south-east of Bellever Tor and 1.8 km south of Bellever.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1021045, which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities (1991), pages 46 to 47.

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1021045)
• Grid reference: SX 6553 7561 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)