Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1011189) describes a stone hut circle on a gentle east-facing slope above the valley of the River Meavy, part of a settlement on the eastern slope of Leeden Tor. It is terraced into the hillside, with a stone and earth wall 1.5 metres wide and up to 0.6 metres high around a space 3.8 metres across. Hut circles, enclosures, a reave, a cairn and a stone alignment lie close by. It lies in the parish of Walkhampton, about 1 km south-east of Ingra Tor and 3 km east of Sampford Spiney.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1011189, which cites Gibson, Single Monument Class Description: Stone Hut Circles (1987), the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX57SE17) and fieldwork for the Monuments Protection Programme by S. Gerrard.
Period: Bronze Age
Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1011189)
Grid reference: SX 5640 7167 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
Historic England listed designation: Stone hut circle 130m east of Leeden Tor forming part of a stone hut circle settlement
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