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Multi-periodSite Name: Walkhampton Enclosed Settlement
Country: England County: Devon Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Princetown
Map Ref: SX56747286
Latitude: 50.537919N Longitude: 4.022991W
Condition:

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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

2 Ambience:

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4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
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4 Access:

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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4 Accuracy:

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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SandyG visited on 2nd Apr 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3

**Walkhampton Enclosed Settlement** submitted by davep : Walkhampton Enclosed Settlement. Photo taken 11/04/2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hut circles 550m south of Foggintor quarries. A very fine settlement, set within a well built and substantial enclosure wall, enclosing an area of some 1.0ha. Five hut circles occur within the enclosure varying between 6-10m in diameter

Outside the enclosure to the west are five further huts of similar dimensions - again one of these shows sign of alteration. Under moorland grass. The site was excavated in 1897 by Burnard and Baring-Gould.

See also NMR record: SX 57 SE 41(Pastscape Monument No. 440143) and HER record: 4964.

Update December 2019: This site is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entries for the Walkhampton Enclosed Settlement and the Walkhampton and Yes Tor Bottom Settlements.

In addition to the links for Pastscape and the Devon and Dartmoor HER given above, this site is also scheduled as Historic England List ID 1019587 (Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement south of Foggintor Quarries, 1140m ENE of Criptor).
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SX5672 : Prehistoric Settlement on Walkhampton Common by Sandy Gerrard — by Sandy Gerrard
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SX5672 : Wall, Walkhampton Common by Derek Harper — by Derek Harper
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SX5673 : Ponies by the Dartmoor Way by Derek Harper — by Derek Harper
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SX5673 : Boundary wall on Walkhampton Common by David Smith — by David Smith
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SX5673 : Dartmoor: Former Yelverton to Princetown railway by Nigel Cox — by Nigel Cox
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