Leapra Rings Enclosure
Lidar imagery shows the 3 circular features.
Database entries
OS Map: SX 700 826
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV26675
Alternate name: Leapra Rings
Short Name: EN:Leapra
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: HER
Hut Class: No
Lidar: SX 700 826
Guide Map: 21
Nearest Bus Stop: Batworthy Miniature Pony Centre (3.6 km) [Route: 171]
Nearby sites: SX 700 826
Notes
HER: Leapra Rings consists of three possibly Prehistoric circular features on Shapeley CommonButler: Leapra Rings on steeply sloping ground on Shapley Common consist of three roughly circular banks levelled into the hillside. They are 10 - 12 metres in daimeter and over a metre high in places. About a third of the periphery is missing from the northern ring, perhaps not an original feature as neither of the orhters now has any visible entrance and their purposes is uncertain as they are too large for huts. A few slabs set edgeways show above the truf covered banks, occasionally paired and infilled with smaller stones in typically Prehistoric fashion.
Butler continues: Another enigmatic site lies in the second field to the north, on a good settlement site just above the damp ground surrounding the Leapra Brook. The overgrown remains are almost unrecognizable but appear to be of prehistoric construction like those above, perhpas a hut with a small paddock attached.
See also entries for round houses all of which are associated with the same HER entry: Shapley Tor N (SiteID=8275), Shapley Tor N (SiteID=8276) and Shapley Tor N (SiteID=8277)
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.2: The North, (1991)