Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Walkhampton and Yes Tor Bottom Settlements
OS Map: SX 56772 72867
OS Source: Constructed
HER: MDV4964
Megalithic Portal: 45325
Alternate name: Walkhampton
Short Name: ES Walkhampton
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Lidar: SX 56772 72867
Nearest Bus Stop: Princetown Dartmoor Visitor Centre (3.1 km) [Route: 98,171,172]
Nearby sites: SX 56772 72867
Notes
"Hut circles 550m s 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 diam ... Outside the enclosure to the w 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.
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, Fifth Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.30 pp.97-115 (1898)
- 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)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Dartmoor Hut Circles, T.D.A. Vol.77 pp.225-256 (1945)