Yar Tor Tor Enclosure
Photo taken on 25-09-2025
Close-up of Butler's possible round house (Photo 25/09/2025).
Database entries
OS Map: SX 67849 74046
OS Source: Garmin
HER: MDV128748
Alternate name: Yar Tor
Short Name: EN Yar Tor
Butler map: 14.8
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: Yes
Lidar: SX 67849 74046
Guide Map: 36
Nearest Bus Stop: Dartmeet Badgers Holt (1.3 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 67849 74046
Notes
HER quoting Newman: A Tor enclosure of uncertain date on the northern outcrop of Yar Tor. This enclosure is situated in a natural avenue between two outcrops with vertical faces on the north and south sides which has been blocked off at the western and eastern ends by artificial stone walls. The western interior is approximately level but slopes away on the eastern side down to the wall. The north and south sides of the enclosure comprise natural linear crags of up to 2.0m high reinforced in places by large boulders. The wall at the western end is 2.1m thick and consists of a stone revetted bank with stone rubble behind surviving up to 0.8m high. The wall is slightly curved in plan. On the eastern wall there are vestiges of stone facing still in place but it is mostly collapsed and spread up to 3m wide and 0.7m high much of the wall surviving only as a disturbed stony spread. There is a possible entrance in the east wall adjacent to the northern outcrop, in the form of an opening. There are no discernable interior features.The main photo is taken looking down from on top of one of the outcrops. Butler's possible round house can be seen within the main photo but see also a close up from ground level.
Acknowledgement: The author was unaware of this site until a walk with Steve Szypko on 25/09/2025. This record has been added as a result.
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.
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.1: The East, (1991)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 56, T.D.A. Vol.69 pp.75-109 (1937)