<< Our Photo Pages >> Hart Tor North prehistoric settlement - Ancient Village or Settlement in England in Devon
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Multi-periodSite Name: Hart Tor North prehistoric settlementCountry: England County: Devon Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Village: Princetown
Map Ref: SX5818572466
Latitude: 50.534730N Longitude: 4.002463W
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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Many of the round houses are apparently unenclosed, although short lengths of walling indicate that a field system or groups of enclosures may have once been associated with this settlement. The best preserved and consequently most understandable boundary wall survives at the northern end of the settlement where an enclosed area measuring 35m by 21m defined by a 1.5m wide and 0.5m high rubble bank survives.
Leading from this enclosed area is a second bank which curves southward enclosing a substantial area. The original extent of this bank is not currently known because it peters out, but it may have originally enclosed the discrete group of houses lying to the south west. Enough evidence exists to indicate that the distribution of houses within the settlement is not haphazard and that they appear to have been laid out to take account of features such as boundaries which are no longer visible. The boundaries were not confined to the settlement and in the area to the south east a couple lengths of walling indicate that the field system once extended beyond the houses. At a number of different locations the linear arrangements of houses certainly suggests that they were once connected in some manner.
Update October 2019: This settlement is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Hart Tor N. Settlement. The settlement is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 440082 and as MDV3791 (UNENCLOSED HUT CIRCLE SETTLEMENT in the Parish of Walkhampton) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER.
This site is also scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1011174 (Thirty-six stone hut circles and an irregular aggregate field system forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 450m north of Hart Tor), which notes that fieldwork was carried out by Sandy Gerrard (SandyG).
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