Monument record MDO747 - Hut circle, Weam Common Hill, Cerne Abbas

A roughly circular depression interpreted as a possible hut circle. This feature is situated in an area of prehistoric fields and may be associated with them, though a later date is thought to be more likely.

(ST 65650152) Hut circle or possible mound. <1>

The remains of a hut-circle and some other sinkings occur on Weam Common Hill, immediately south of the bank shown on the OS map. <2>

ST 65620153 A scooped depression which seems to have been cut into a disused lynchet on the lip of a very steep S slope. The hollow has an overall diameter of 10.0m and is 0.5m deep. It is almost circular with an entrance or gap 2.7m wide in the SE. The interior, 7.0m in diameter, rises slightly towards the centre. There is no sign of any bank around the depression. It is possibly a hut circle but it is so sharply defined as to suggest a later work or an excavated hut. The bank shown on the OS plan <2> is a probably post medieval feature. Surveyed at 1:2500. <3>

<1> Crawford, O G S, Annotated record map 6 inch (Map). SWX7265.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 84 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, 19-OCT-76 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 198977 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 12 2024 1:58PM