<< Our Photo Pages >> Wistman's wood Settlement - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Devon
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Multi-periodSite Name: Wistman's wood SettlementCountry: England
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County: Devon Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Map Ref: SX61257750
Latitude: 50.580709N Longitude: 3.961118W
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 |
5 | Superb |
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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lauraaurora visited on 2nd Aug 2020 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
lichen couldn't find on 16th Dec 2016
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 3.5
Wistman's wood Settlement has scores of huts, Pillow mounds and enclosures. It's found to the East of the Wonderful very rare ancient woodland of Wistman's wood and stretches all the way from SX612779 at the North to SX613765 at the South.
Update December 2019: This settlement is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Wistman's wood Settlement. The site is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 442738, as MDV66036 (HUT CIRCLE in the Parish of Dartmoor Forest) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1020876 (Prehistoric settlement, field system and rabbit warren south of Longaford Tor).
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