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Stone hut circle and field system 580m north west of North Creaber, forming part of a coaxial field system on Buttern Hill
Devon
This scheduled monument consists of a stone hut circle and associated field system on Buttern Hill, likely dating to the Bronze Age. The hut circle forms part of a larger coaxial field arrangement, a distinctive type of land division that speaks to organised settlement and agriculture on Dartmoor during prehistory. The parallel field boundaries are characteristic of Bronze Age land management across the moor.
Today the site remains largely as archaeology, with the hut circle and field banks visible on the ground. Visitors will find themselves among typical moorland, with the fragmentary stone remains marking where people once lived and worked the land. The coaxial system extends across the hillside, part of the wider pattern of Bronze Age settlement that shaped Dartmoor's landscape.
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