Hut circle near Cawsand Beacon

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1010792) describes a stone hut circle on the outer edge of an enclosed hut circle settlement on a north-west-facing slope of Cawsand Hill, also known as Cosdon Hill, above the River Taw. It is part of a distinct group of settlements on the lower slopes of Cawsand and White Hill, with two broadly contemporary hut circle settlements a short distance east and south-east. The hut is a stone and earth bank 1.5 metres wide and 0.6 metres high around a circular space 5 metres across. It lies in the parish of South Tawton, about 0.9 km south-east of Ladybrook Tor and 2.3 km south-east of Belstone.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1010792, which cites Greeves, The Archaeology of Dartmoor from the Air (1985), plate 16, Gibson, Single Monument Class Description: Stone Hut Circles (1987), the Devon County Sites and Monuments Register (SX69SW46, 1985) and fieldwork for the Monuments Protection Programme by S. Gerrard.

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1010792)
• Grid reference: SX 6300 9152 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)

Historic England listed designation: Stone hut circle 610m west of Cawsand Beacon forming an outlying part of an enclosed stone hut circle settlement