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<< Our Photo Pages >> Hook Lake Settlement - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Devon

Submitted by thecaptain on Friday, 28 July 2006  Page Views: 4949

Multi-periodSite Name: Hook Lake Settlement Alternative Name: Brown Heath Settlement
Country: England County: Devon Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Ivybridge  Nearest Village: Harford
Map Ref: SX6408065390
Latitude: 50.472532N  Longitude: 3.916754W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by thecaptain : Well preserved ancient settlement on the eastern flanks of the Erme valley, consisting of two large walled enclosures, the one to the north a circular shape, with a sort of triangular one to the south. Each enclosure contains several huts. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Well preserved ancient settlement on the eastern flanks of the Erme valley, consisting of two large walled enclosures, the one to the north a circular shape, with a sort of triangular one to the south. Each enclosure contains several huts.

There is the remains of a double stone row sort of linking between the two parts of the settlement, although of course it is much older, and many of the stones were probably used for construction of the settlement.

Update August 2019: This enclosed settlement is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks website - see their entry for the Brown Heath Enclosed Settlement, which tells us this is "a fine example of an enclosure. The walling consisting of very large stones reaching a height of one metre. It contains three hut circles and a number of courts situated mainly on its north and western sides. There is no obvious entrance".

The settlement is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 441700, and forms part of the scheduling information for Historic England List ID 1002493 (Stone row, cairn and enclosures near Hook Lane, Erme Valley).

The Stone Rows of Great Britain includes an entry for the Hook Lake Stone Row, which includes a plan of the row showing its relationship to the nearby cairn, round house and this enclosure.
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Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by Bladup : Hook Lake Settlement, A hut just outside the Northern enclosure at 64066527 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by Bladup : Hook Lake Settlement, The wall of the Northern enclosure (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by Bladup : Hook Lake Settlement, Half a hut inside the Northern enclosure at 64066530 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by Bladup : Hook Lake Settlement, The Northern Enclosure wall (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by Bladup : Hook Lake Settlement, The Hut with the stone row stone incorporated into it at SX64136525. You can see the Northern Enclosure wall in the background on the left (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by Bladup : Hook Lake Settlement, A Hut with a large wall (SX64086520)

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by Bladup : Hook Lake Settlement, The Eastern hut - SX64006517, The Southern Enclosure wall is visible top right and another hut (SX64086520) is visible in the background on the left

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by Bladup : Hook Lake Settlement, The Eastern hut at SX64006517 with the Western one behind it

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by Bladup : Hook Lake Settlement, The Western hut at SX64006517

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by Bladup : Hook Lake Settlement, Wall of the Southern Enclosure

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by Bladup : Hook Lake Settlement, The Hut inside the southern enclosure - SX64026513

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by SandyG : The southern Hook Lake enclosure. View from west.

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by SandyG : The southern Hook Lake enclosure stands adjacent to a once rich alluvial tin deposit. View from south west.

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by SandyG : The Hook Lake enclosures. View from south west.

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by Creative Commons : Hut Circle on the north-west edge of the Hook Lake North settlement. Copyright Guy Wareham and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.

Hook Lake Settlement
Hook Lake Settlement submitted by thecaptain : Here I have highlighted the main settlement enclosures in yellow. The remains of the double stone row are shown by the red line.

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 2.6km NE 53° Huntingdon Barrow* Long Barrow (SX6621266907)
 2.7km SW 225° Ranny Brook North Cist* Cist (SX62156355)
 2.7km S 172° Three Barrows West prehistoric settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX6436762738)
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Re: Hook Lake Settlement by noisemonkey on Wednesday, 26 January 2022
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I visited this site on Monday. The southerly settlement has a variety of hut circles within including one rectangular building at the south eastern side. Possible entrances are at the north/south with huts positioned within the enclosure and a few outside mainly in the north. The row skirts the east wall where there are two rows. There could be more fallen stones but the grass is way too dense to be sure and I didn't have enough time on this occasion. The northern enclosure is interesting in that it has four distinct building ruins on the north/east/south and western edges but nothing much to be seen in the middle. There are some boulders there but it's very unclear what is natural due to grass and reeds. It's a very intriguing site.
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