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<< Our Photo Pages >> Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Devon

Submitted by AngieLake on Thursday, 07 May 2009  Page Views: 5145

Multi-periodSite Name: Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead Alternative Name: Yar Tor Prehistoric Settlement
Country: England County: Devon Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Ashburton  Nearest Village: Widecombe
Map Ref: SX67627342
Latitude: 50.545518N  Longitude: 3.869746W
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
2 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.
4 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
5

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lucasn visited on 27th Jun 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5

Catrinm visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Large homestead near the road found by mistake

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4 Access: 4.5

Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead
Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead submitted by AngieLake : This must be the enclosure, at the lower part of the site. (Vote or comment on this photo)
This intriguing ruin lies just to the right of the road going down the very steep Dartmeet Hill below the summit of Yar Tor, when travelling towards Dartmeet from Poundsgate. It is easier to see when the bracken dies down, but some of the remaining stones are quite prominent all year round. There is a handy layby on the left of the road going downhill, which is easy enough to pull out of later (ample views of oncoming traffic on this very steep gradient.) Then all you need to do is cross over and take a short walk across fairly even ground to the site.

Butler, in his Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, describes it as:
"A splendid survival of a prehistoric homestead.... It may have been refurbished at some more recent period as the field has been reused and a later bank and ditch constructed around the site. A large hut (9.5 m) with some massive stones in its wall opens into a triangular enclosure. The wall opposite the hut is the reave reinforced with large slabs. A gap beside a cross-set slab near the south corner of this wall is no doubt the original entrance into the enclosure. The outer field to the west, obviously cleared of surface stone, was originally divided by a bank which was later partly demolished and the stones piled in the centre. The circular bank of a smaller hut (c.6.5 m) lies on the opposite side of the reave."

Update August 2019. Click on the following links for more information:
Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW): Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead Round House;
Pastscape Monument No. 442904; and
Devon and Dartmoor HER: MDV2673 Enclosure East of Badger's Hill.
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Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead
Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead submitted by AngieLake : Looking across the site. The steep road up Dartmeet hill runs behind the trees in background. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead
Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead submitted by AngieLake : Looking down on the site from higher up the slopes of Yar Tor. Dartmeet is in the valley below. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead
Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead submitted by AngieLake : Looking down over the tops of the stones forming part of the hut wall (?), towards the enclosure. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead
Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead submitted by AngieLake : The most prominent stones of the site, at the higher end of the area. Butler says: "A large hut (9.5 m) with some massive stones in its wall ...", so I imagine this is what he was referring to. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead
Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead submitted by Catrinm : Yar Tor homestead (Vote or comment on this photo)

Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead
Yar Tor Prehistoric Homestead submitted by AngieLake : Looking uphill from the bottom outside corner of the enclosure. This may be the reinforced reave Butler referred to.

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 572m NNE 23° Yar Tor Summit* Cairn (SX67867394)
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 1.2km NE 48° Corndon Down Cairns* Barrow Cemetery (SX68557420)
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 1.7km S 173° Aller Brook* Cist (SX67807168)
 1.8km N 1° Sherwell Long Barrow* Long Barrow (SX677752)
 1.8km WNW 281° Huccaby Rings Inner* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX6585473819)
 1.9km SSE 164° Holne Moor North Ring Cairn (SX68097162)
 2.3km WNW 295° Huccaby Rings Outer* Ancient Village or Settlement (SX6554474428)
 2.3km SSW 195° Holne Ridge 5* Cairn (SX66967120)
 2.4km S 183° Holne Moor* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX6743171042)
 2.4km SSW 195° Holne Ridge 6* Cairn (SX66927111)
 2.5km SSW 195° Holne Ridge 7* Barrow Cemetery (SX66927105)
 2.5km SSW 194° Horn's Cross* Ancient Cross (SX66987103)
 2.5km SSW 202° Holne Ridge North* Cist (SX6664171138)
 2.5km SSW 199° Holne Ridge 2* Cairn (SX6675171091)
 2.5km SSW 199° Holne Ridge NE* Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue (SX66757109)
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