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- Period: Prehistoric (Bronze Age by type)
- Status: Six scheduled monuments (Historic England entries listed below)
These are the places on Cox Tor where huts sit inside or beside enclosures, on the east, south, west and north-east slopes. One has an irregular aggregate field system with eight huts and, over it, later post-medieval fields with ridge and furrow. The enclosures are different dates from the neighbouring field systems.
The six scheduled monuments
| Historic England entry | Grid reference | What survives |
|---|---|---|
| 1011441 | SX 53540 76805 | An irregular aggregate field system of four plots over about 2 hectares, eight hut circles (4.7 m to 7 m across) and three later post-medieval fields with ridge and furrow, on the north-east slope. |
| 1011429 | SX 53609 76601 | Two hut circles, 4.5 m and 5.8 m across, attached to a sub-circular enclosure 50 m by 39 m, part of the north-east settlement. |
| 1011498 | SX 53196 76144 | Two very small hut circles and a sub-rectangular enclosure 32 m by 38 m, its corners marked by clearance cairns, on the east slope. |
| 1011497 | SX 52853 75986 | An enclosure 30 m by 26 m on the steep west slope with a hut circle (6.6 m inside, south doorway) and a small rectangular building. |
| 1020002 | SX 52545 75900 | Three hut circles and a 64 m by 54 m enclosure with fields on a gentle west-facing slope, two of the huts inside the enclosure. |
| 1020006 | SX 52998 75415 | A D-shaped enclosure 50 m by 40 m with a small hut circle in its south-west corner, on the south slope above Whitchurch Common. |
Historic England's titles measure from the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar or from the summit; grid references are from the same entries.
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