Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Round Pound and Kes Tor Settlements
OS Map: SX 66395 86856
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV6117
Megalithic Portal: 10445
Alternate name: Round Pound
Short Name: HC RoundPound
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Lidar: SX 66395 86856
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Wonson Telephone Box (3.8 km) [Route: 670]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Chagford The Square (3.7 km) [Route: 173,178,671]
Nearby sites: SX 66395 86856
Notes
"Round pound, near batworthy, a single hut with double walls enclosed in a circular pound, entered from a droveway from the nw, which is part of the kestor field system. There are 4 radial walls inserted in the pound in medieval times. Excavation has showed that this was a metal workshop, of early iron age date.".
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.
- Burnard, Robert, Dartmoor Preservation, The Western Antiquary; or Devon & Cornwall Notebook Vol.9 (1890)
- Fox, Aileen, 20th Report on Archaeology and Early History, T.D.A. Vol.85 pp.171-2 (1953)
- Fox, Aileen, Excavations at Kestor, an Early Iron Age Settlement near Chagford, Devon, T.D.A. Vol.86 pp.21-62 (1954)
- Fox, Aileen, Celtic Fields and Farms on Dartmoor in Light of Recent Excavations at Kestor, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Vol. 20. pp.87-102 (1954)
- Lukis, W.C, Report on the Monuments of Dartmoor, Proceeding of the Society of Antiquaries Vol.8 (1881)
- Ormerod, George Wareing, On the Hut-Circles of the Eastern Side of Dartmoor, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol.20 (1864)
- Silvester, R., The Relationship of First Millennium Settlement to the Upland Areas of the South West., D.A.S.P. No.37 pp.178-179 (1979)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Prehistoric Pounds of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.75 pp.273-302 (1943)
- Worth, R.N., Notes on Some Dartmoor Antiquities, Devon and Cornwall Notes and Gleanings Vol 3, pp. 17, 13, 59, 67, 94, 108, 125 (1890)