| Summary : A prehistoric hut circle located on the east of Toll's Hill, a broad spur extending into Crow Sound from the north east coast of St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. The hut circle survives with an ovoid interior, 5 metres long, north west-south east, by 4 metres wide, levelled into, and partly built out from, the upper slope at the tip of the spur. Its interior is defined by an earth and rubble wall, generally 1 metre wide, incorporating a natural bedrock boulder on the east and faced on both sides by edge-set slabs, mostly to 0.7 metres high. Slight traces of the wall are visible lining the 1.1 metre high levelling backscarp on the south west of the interior. Scheduled. |
More information : "On the top of Toll's Hill a little circle of
stones erect, 18 ft diameter, and near it a detached pillar". (1)
Listed as a hut. (2)
No hut is visible on the thickly scrub covered and unsheltered
top of Toll's Hill but at SV 92801214 immediately to the north
east of a Civil War Battery and levelled into the hillside at
a lower level, is a platform 5.0m by 4.0m enclosed by partly
exposed walling of earth and stones, 0.5m high. A gap
representing an entrace is on the south east side adjacent to
the hilltop, and nearby a tall natural boulder. Although the
feature does not incorporate 'erect' stones it has the
appearance of a hut circle and may be that mentioned by
Borlase.
Surveyed on PFD at 1:2500. (See plan with SV 91 SW 69).
(3) |