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Hut circle and Bradford Leat, Buttern Hill
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle and Bradford Leat, Buttern Hill

A 7.3 m hut circle with a double upright-stone wall in a Buttern Hill coaxial field, cut by the Bradford Leat, whose abandonment followed a 17th-century court case, with a small clapper bridge made of two robbed slabs.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“The rain stopped suddenly, and the wind was hushed, except in the tops of invisible trees; and a streak of black boggy fog settled heavily.”

Also on Our DartmoorHut circle near Penn Beacon — A stone hut circle 4.7 m across inside, terraced into a south-east slope above the Ford Brook, with its doorway facing south-south-east.