Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1019219) describes a stone hut circle on a gentle north-east-facing slope of Down Ridge, above the River Dart. A circular wall of upright stones 1.1 metres wide and 0.7 metres high surrounds a space 4.8 metres across. A gap in the east side may be the original entrance. It lies in the parish of Dartmoor Forest, about 1 km west of Combestone Tor and 1.2 km south-east of Hexworthy.
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“I thought of the convict out upon the bleak, cold, shelterless moor.”
Also on Our DartmoorGutter Tor south-west enclosed hut settlement — A small enclosure about 30 m by 20 m with five hut circles, 2 to 10.5 m across, on a south-facing slope south-west of Gutter Tor.
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