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Hut circle lying near a cairnfield on Longstone Hill

Grid ref: SX 5662 9032

  • Period: Bronze Age
  • Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1010603)
  • Grid reference: SX 56627 90322

A low stone-and-earth wall, 1.4 m wide and up to 0.4 m high, surrounds a circular floor 6.5 m across. It sits on a narrow shelf on a west-facing slope, on the southern edge of the Longstone Hill cairnfield, where the cairns lie in their own scheduled monuments. The valleys of the Redaven Brook and West Okement River fall away below.

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