<< Our Photo Pages >> Huntingdon Warren Settlement - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Devon
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Multi-periodSite Name: Huntingdon Warren SettlementCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.3 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Buckfastleigh Nearest Village: Holne
Map Ref: SX660663
Latitude: 50.481153N Longitude: 3.890039W
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 |
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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 |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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graemefield visited on 7th Jan 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 2
lauraaurora have visited here
Noticed while walking around the southern slopes of Huntingdon Warren, the settlement faces south with views to the Avon Dam and the junction of the West Walla Brook with the R. Avon to the SE.
In Butler's excellent 'Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities - Vol. Four, the South', he tells us that:
"The four enclosures of the highest of the Avon settlements developed on the same impressive scale as the largest of those lower down the valley."
His diagram on p.163 shows two larger, fairly oval enclosures (A and B) to the west of the four, and the other much smaller two (C and D) to the east.
I've used the recorded OS grid ref for enclosure B as it is most central.
We did not explore this area, only passing through en route to the clapper bridge and back again to Lud Gate. I believe the photo shows the southern walls of enclosure B, which also has a cairn marked inside it.
I did stop to photograph a cairn while walking west, so it is most likely that one. It is hard to pick out features while walking on this rough terrain, hence not realising that the cairn was inside a large enclosure then.
Butler says that B seems to have no significant buildings within it, other than a possible small hut with a pen attached. A line of small semi-circular banks on the east wall may have been storage areas.
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