Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Legis Tor Settlements
OS Map: SX 5693 6527
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV3979
Megalithic Portal: 34065
Alternate name: Legis
Short Name: PD Legis Pound
DPD page: 37
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Lidar: SX 5693 6527
Guide Map: 47
Nearest Bus Stop: Meavy Primary School (4.0 km) [Route: 56]
Nearby sites: SX 5693 6527
Notes
"A field system containing 13 hut circles occupies an area of 6ha on the lower S and SW flanks of Legis Tor. The field system is best preserved on the S where five irregular, adjoining enclosures contain all but one of the huts. These enclosures vary between 0.1ha and 0.6ha and lie in an area of often dense clitter. Several of the enclosures are further sub-divided."
References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER or PMD record above.
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Third Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.28 pp.174-199 (1896)
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Burnard, Robert, Early Man, The Victoria History of the County of Devon: v. 1 (1906)
- Greeves, T, The Archaeology of Dartmoor from the Air, (1985)
- Newman, Phil, Ringmoor Down Premier Archaeological Landscape - A new survey
, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2022)
- Radford, C.A.R., Prehistoric settlements on Dartmoor and the Cornish Moors, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Vol.18 pp.55-84 (1952)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Prehistoric Pounds of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.75 pp.273-302 (1943)