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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1008645) describes a stone hut circle on a south-east-facing slope overlooking the valley of the Ford Brook. It is terraced into the hillside, with a stone and earth wall around a circular inner area 4.7 metres across, the wall 1.2 metres wide and up to 0.7 metres high. The doorway is a gap in the wall facing south-south-east. Peat covers the ground around it, so there may be other features buried nearby. It lies in the parish of Cornwood, about 1.1 km north of Rook Tor and 3 km north of Cornwood.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1008645, which cites Gibson, Single Monument Class Description: Stone Hut Circles (1988), the National Archaeological Record (NMR SX 60 62/1, 1976) and fieldwork for the Monuments Protection Programme by S. Gerrard.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1008645)
- Grid reference: SX 6033 6265 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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