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Hut circle near Beardown Man
Grid ref: SX 5912 7941
On walking routes: The Lichway
This is a prehistoric stone hut circle, one of several structures scattered across the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor. It lies about 530 metres south-west of Beardown Man, a standing stone that marks a significant point on the high moor. The hut circle is likely Bronze Age, built when farming communities occupied Dartmoor's uplands and created networks of small settlements across the landscape.
Today, the site survives as a low circular stone foundation, a common feature of the dispersed settlements found throughout Dartmoor. Visiting it means walking into open moorland and engaging with the archaeology of ancient land use. It is one of many hut circles on this slope, evidence of how people once organised themselves across this terrain.
Historic England listed designation: Stone hut circle 530m south-west of Beardown Man forming part of a dispersed settlement on the eastern slope of Conies Down Tor
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Plate from An Exploration of Dartmoor and Its Antiquities, page 272, 1889“Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me thy grey mare, / All along, down along, out along, lee. / For I want for to go to Widdecombe Fair, / Wi' Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, / Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawk, / Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all.”
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