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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1011249) describes a stone hut circle on a gentle east-facing slope of Leather Tor. It is terraced into the hillside as a bank 1.5 metres wide and up to 0.7 metres high round a flat circular space 10.7 metres across. It is an outlying part of a small settlement just to the north. The hut is attached to a field boundary that is mostly post-medieval but probably lies over a prehistoric boundary. The stretch next to the hut is included in the scheduling, but the surrounding prehistoric field system, now fossilised in later fields, is not. It lies in the parish of Walkhampton, about 0.5 km north-east of Lower Leather Tor and 2.6 km north of Sheepstor.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1011249, which cites Gibson, Single Monument Class Description: Stone Hut Circles (1987), the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX57SE147) and fieldwork for the Monuments Protection Programme by S. Gerrard.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1011249)
- Grid reference: SX 5661 7018 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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