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Dartmoor Site: High-house Waste Enclosed Settlement

High-house Waste Enclosed Settlement

Database entries

OS Map: SX 605 627
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV4362
Megalithic Portal: 45579
Alternate name: High-house Waste
Short Name: ES:HighHouse
DPD page: 63
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Lidar: SX 605 627
Nearby sites: SX 605 627

Notes

"Scattered settlement of at least 12 circular huts, some of them being very large. Possibly Romano-British as opposed to the Bronze Age/Iron Age settlements nearby. Later rectangular house on south edge of area". Lethbridge p.63-64 Hut Circle with largest door jambs (over 4 foot tall) on Dartmoor.

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