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Two stone hut circles and an adjoining Prehistoric boundary wall 470m east of Trewalla Farm

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Heritage Category:: Scheduled Monument
List Entry Number:: 1012000
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1992

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Scheduled Monument
List Entry Number:: 1012000
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1992

Location

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Cleer
National Grid Reference:: SX 25120 71063

Reasons for Designation

Bodmin Moor, the largest of the Cornish granite uplands, has long been recognised to have exceptional preservation of archaeological remains. The Moor has been the subject of detailed archaeological survey and is one of the best recorded upland landscapes in England. The extensive relict landscapes of prehistoric, medieval and post-medieval date provide direct evidence for human exploitation of the Moor from the earliest prehistoric period onwards. The well-preserved and often visible relationship between settlement sites, field systems, ceremonial and funerary monuments as well as later industrial remains provides significant insights into successive changes in the pattern of land use through time. Stone hut circles were the dwelling places of prehistoric farmers on the Moor, mostly dating from the Bronze Age (c.2000-700 BC). The stone-based round houses survive as low walls or banks enclosing a circular floor area; remains of a turf or thatch roof are not preserved. The huts occur singly or in small or large groups and may occur in the open or be enclosed by a bank of earth and stone. Although they are common on the Moor, their longevity of use and their relationship with other monument types provides important information on the diversity of social organisation and farming practices among prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of protection.

These hut circles on southern Craddock Moor have survived reasonably well, displaying clear details of their construction and, unusually, preserving an integral wall linking them. Their proximity to the broadly contemporary field system and major concentration of funerary and ritual sites on Craddock Moor demonstrates well the nature of land use during the Bronze Age.

Details

The monument includes two stone hut circles, linked by a contemporary boundary wall, situated close to a broadly contemporary field system and near a major concentration of Bronze Age funerary and ritual monuments on the southern part of Craddock Moor on SE Bodmin Moor. The hut circles are centred 25m apart on a WSW-ENE axis. The hut circle to the WSW survives with a wall of heaped rubble, up to 1.5m wide and 0.5m high, around a circular internal area 4.5m in diameter, levelled into the hillslope. The hut circle wall incorporates spaced boulders up to 1m across and has an entrance gap 0.75m wide facing SE. The hut circle to the ENE is of the same construction, but with a slighter rubble wall, up to 0.4m high, linking its spaced boulders and with a levelled internal area 4m in diameter. This hut has an entrance gap 1m wide, facing ESE. The two hut circles are linked by an earth-and-rubble wall, up to 1m wide and 0.2m high, which joins the WSW hut circle at the northern side of its entrance and extends east, merging with the southern sector of the wall of the ENE hut circle.

MAP EXTRACT The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract. It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features, considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 15173
Legacy System:: RSM

Sources

Books and journals
Sharpe, A, The Minions Area Archaeological Survey and Management (Volume 2), (1989), 278-282
Sharpe, A, The Minions Area Archaeological Survey and Management (Volume 2), (1989), 278-82
Sharpe, A, The Minions Area Archaeological Survey and Management (Volume 2), (1989), 279-282
Other
consulted 1/1992, Carter, A/RCHME, 1:2500 AP transcriptions for SX 2471 and 2571,
consulted 1/1992, Carter, A/RCHME, 1:2500 AP transcriptions for SX 2570 and SX 2571,
Consulted 1/1992, Cornwall SMR entry for PRN 14035,
Consulted 1/1992, Cornwall SMR entry for PRN 14035.1,
consulted 1/1992, Cornwall SMR entry for PRN 1444-5,
Consulted 1992, Carter, A/RCHME, 1:2500 AP transcription for SX 2571,
Cornwall SMR entry for PRN 1405,
Forthcoming; draft text consulted, CAU, RCHME, The Bodmin Moor Survey (Volume 1), The Prehistoric and Historic Landscape,

Legal

This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.