Kestor Enclosed Settlement
Photo taken on 26-06-2011
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: Round Pound and Kes Tor Settlements
OS Map: SX 66397 86846
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV6114
Megalithic Portal: 4617
Alternate name: Kestor
Short Name: ES Kestor
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Hut Class: No
Lidar: SX 66397 86846
Guide Map: 13
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 66397 86846
Notes
HER: Kes Tor field system. A well-developed parallel reave and coaxial field system around Kes Tor rock on Chagford Common. Around 30 hut circles are scattered throughout the system; see related records. Partly scheduled. The Kestor Settlement includes the Round Pound.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.
- Fleming, Andrew, The Prehistoric Landscape of Dartmoor Part 2: North and East Dartmoor , Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , pp. 195 - 241 (1983)
- Fox, Aileen, Excavations at Kestor, an Early Iron Age Settlement near Chagford, Devon, T.D.A. Vol.86 pp.21-62 (1954)
- Gawne E. and Somers J.V.S., Parallel Reaves on Dartmoor , T.D.A. Vol.100 pp.277-92 (1968)
- Greeves, T, The Archaeology of Dartmoor from the Air, (1985)
- Ormerod, George Wareing, Archaeological memoirs relating to the East of Dartmoor, (1876)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Prehistoric Pounds of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.75 pp.273-302 (1943)