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Multi-periodSite Name: Lower Piles Enclosed SettlementCountry: England County: Devon Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Ivybridge Nearest Village: Harford
Map Ref: SX64376048
Latitude: 50.428467N Longitude: 3.91089W
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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Ancient Village or Settlement in Devon
The Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website includes the Lower Piles Enclosed Settlement in its walk 'The Neolithic tombs of Cuckoo Ball & Corringdon Ball'. Their record describes the site as being "within the newtake known as Lower Piles. A group of seven huts near the south east corner of the enclosed land. All now composed of fairly small stones the walls appearing as thick banks of stone and turf, not high, but spreading to a width of 1.8m or more. The diameters vary from c 9.20 to c 12.20m outside measurements. Only one hut has a well defined entrance, this is on the south east side of the circle."
Further details can be found in the Pastscape Record for this site, Monument Number 442333. This record describes "9 hut circles and the remains of 3 possible enclosures, on a gentle, well drained west facing slope, at 265.0m above OD."
The settlement is also recorded as MDV4354 (UNENCLOSED HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT in the Parish of Harford) in the Devon and Dartmoor HER and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1009578 (Agglomerated enclosure with hut circles, south of Lower Piles).
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