Brent Tor Fort
Photo taken on 17-06-2022
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Resource: Table of Devon Iron Age Forts
OS Map: SX 47100 80400
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV1669
Megalithic Portal: 28169
Alternate name: Brent Tor
Short Name: FT Brent Tor
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Lidar: SX 47100 80400
Guide Map: 22
Nearest Bus Stop: North Brentor War Memorial (1.8 km) [Route: 118]
Nearby sites: SX 47100 80400
Notes
"An earthwork of unknown date or purpose runs around Brent Tor well below the summit in the form of a massive stone-faced bank. In 1232 Henry III granted to the abbot of Tavistock, an annual three-day fair to be held at the church of Brentor."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.
- Fox, Aileen, Prehistoric hillforts in Devon, (1996)
- Newman, Phil, Brentor An Earthwork Site on Western Dartmoor, English Heritage (2004)
- Pilkington-Rogers, C. W., The Date of the Dartmoor Antiquities, T.D.A. Vol.64 pp.379-388 (1932)
- 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)