<< Text Pages >> Shapley Common - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Devon
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Multi-periodSite Name: Shapley CommonCountry: England County: Devon Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Okehampton Nearest Village: Lettaford
Map Ref: SX69428206
Latitude: 50.623581N Longitude: 3.847393W
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
Information about this particularly fine example of a hut circle - the Shapley Common Round House - comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website. PDW describes this as "a particularly fine example".
The PDW web page gives links to further information on Pastscape, Monument Number 1346477, which tells us there are a total of eight hut circles in a sub-rectangular enclosure immediately south east of Cullacombe Head.
The site is also recorded as MDV6553 (Hut in settlement on Shapley Common) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1020461 (Prehistoric settlements, fields and enclosures within the Shapley Common coaxial field system, 770m south of Challacombe Cross).
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