<< Our Photo Pages >> Shadyback Tor settlement - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Devon
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Multi-periodSite Name: Shadyback Tor settlementCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.278 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Plymouth Nearest Village: Lee Moor
Map Ref: SX566650
Latitude: 50.467243N Longitude: 4.021945W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Much of the remains have been destroyed in more recent times, with the construction of several warren buries and vermin traps amongst the enclosures.
Update December 2019: This site is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Shadyback Tor Settlement. The site is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 439169, as MDV56780 (Prehistoric Enclosure (B) to the south-west of Shadyback Tor, Shaugh Prior) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1020323 (Prehistoric and historic archaeological landscape at Trowlesworthy Warren).
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