Two hut circle settlements, Beardown Hill

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1021177) describes two prehistoric settlements and their field systems on an east-facing slope of Beardown Hill, above the valley of the West Dart River. The scheduling falls into four areas. The northern settlement is a cluster of at least five hut circles, circular banks round spaces 2.4 to 5.2 metres across, with walls 0.3 to 0.6 metres high and four visible doorways. The southern settlement has at least eight hut circles and several lengths of enclosure walling, the huts 3 to 4.3 metres across inside with walls up to 0.7 metres high, four with visible doorways and one with a drainage ditch round its upper side. The fields lie between the two settlements, defined by winding low rubble banks 1.4 metres wide and up to 0.4 metres high. The northern field system has at least five fields, and the southern is much smaller, with two. It lies in the parish of Dartmoor Forest, about 0.8 km north-west of Crockern Tor and 1.2 km north of Two Bridges.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1021177, which cites the National Monuments Record records SX67NW60 and SX67NW61 (2002).

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1021177)
• Grid reference: SX 6091 7623 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)