Hut circles and longhouse on Wigford Down

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1002550) describes a stone hut circle settlement with enclosures and a medieval longhouse, within a coaxial field system in the centre of Wigford Down. The settlement is two round buildings linked by a double-walled droveway and enclosed by small irregular fields. The huts have rubble or double faced upright-stone walls up to 1.5 metres wide and 1 metre high, around circular inner areas up to 9.5 metres across. A stone in the wall of one building bears a carefully incised inscription reading JTCP. It lies in the parish of Meavy, about 2 km north of Shaugh Prior.

South-west of the enclosures a medieval longhouse stands within a later field system. It is a rectangular building with low walls up to 1.5 metres wide and 0.6 metres high, 12.5 metres long by 3.8 metres wide inside, with an entrance on the south side and a cross wall inside. A 3 metre flanking wall outside the entrance is the remains of a porch, and a yard and garden plots lie beyond.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1002550 (updated 5 November 2015), which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities (1994), and PastScape 439073.

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1002550)
• Grid reference: SX 5421 6505 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)