<< Text Pages >> Little Hangman Hill - Misc. Earthwork in England in Devon
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Multi-periodSite Name: Little Hangman HillCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 9.0 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Village: Combe Martin
Map Ref: SS585480
Latitude: 51.213621N Longitude: 4.027273W
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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Misc. Earthwork in Devon. A survey of Exmoor National Park from the air, carried out as part of English Heritage’s National Mapping Programme, revealed a previously unrecognised prehistoric enclosure on the summit of a famous landmark, Little Hangman Hill, near Combe Martin on the coast of North Devon.
The National Trust, who manage this stretch of coastal heath, organised a group of hard working volunteers who spent part of their holidays clearing the gorse from the enclosure.
Following this, a detailed ground survey was carried out by the English Heritage Archaeological Survey and Investigation team. This showed that the enclosure earthwork links together several rocky outcrops and inside are several levelled areas and some quarry scoops. The enclosure on Little Hangman Hill is difficult to date but could belong to a group of sites found in Devon and Cornwall known as 'tor enclosures'. These date from the earlier Neolithic period, around 6000 years ago, when people first began to make a mark on their landscape, often utilising existing landforms like prominent hilltops and rocky tors and crags.
Source, with photos at English Heritage
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