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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1019267) describes two stone hut circles on a gentle east-facing slope above the valley of the North Teign River. The northern is a rubble bank 1.7 metres wide and 0.45 metres high round a space 3.7 metres across, with a gap facing south-south-east that may be a doorway. The southern is 4.2 metres across inside, with a rubble wall 1.7 metres wide and up to 0.5 metres high, and a south-east gap marked by a leaning upright stone is an original doorway. It lies in the parish of Gidleigh, about 1 km south-west of Rival Tor and 3.4 km south-west of Gidleigh.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1019267, which cites fieldwork for the Monuments Protection Programme by S. Gerrard (1999).
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