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Multi-periodSite Name: Routrundle North Alternative Name: Routrundle Pound; Routrundle North Enclosed SettlementCountry: England County: Devon Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Tavistock Nearest Village: Walkhampton
Map Ref: SX55387185
Latitude: 50.528506N Longitude: 4.041778W
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 |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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SandyG visited on 1st Jan 2004 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3 The enclosure stands in non-access land but can be seen from adjacent footpaths.
The Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks(PDW) website describes the Routrundle North Enclosed Settlement as a "broadly oval enclosure, 58 by 48 metres diameter. Part of the south-west perimeter is represented by a stony scarp 0.5 metres high, elsewhere it comprises a stone spread of similar height upon which is a modern field wall." Also see PDW's page for the Sharpitor area Stone Rows and Cists.
The Pastscape Record for this site, Monument Number 440178 tells us that the enclosure covers "0.601 acres ... now integrated with the present field system".
The settlement is also recorded as MDV105688 (Routrundle North Pound, Walkhampton) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, which describes it as an enclosure of unknown date, but comprising "a single hut, 25ft in internal diameter, built of large orthostats, set in the centre of a circular enclosure, measuring 150ft diameter. The Pound walls are 5-6 feet thick, the hut walls 3-4 feet: entrance to hut from south-west: to Pound from north-west but obscured by later field walls. The Pound is on a gentle hill-slope and levelled a little into hillside. Condition very good: the pound wall has a modern field wall on top of it on the upper (east) side."
The settlement is scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1002494 (Routrundle Pound).
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