Metherall Settlement
Database entries
OS Map: SX 668 840
OS Source: Estimate
HER: MDV107529
Megalithic Portal: 15138
Alternate name: Metherall
Short Name: ST:Metherall
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Hut Class: No
Barrow Report: 56
Lidar: SX 668 840
Guide Map: 20
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Warren House Inn (4.0 km) [Route: 171(20/07/26 to 19/09/26)]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Chagford The Square (4.8 km) [Route: 173,178,671]
Nearby sites: SX 668 840
Notes
HER: Dispersed prehistoric settlement spread over an area of 3.8 hectares on the north slope of Metherall, south of the modern Fernworthy Reservoir. There are seven certain hut circles in the settlement and an eighth circular feature which may be a cairn or hut. Several of the hut circles were excavated in the 1930s in advance of construction of the reservoir.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, Celtic Fields and Farms on Dartmoor in Light of Recent Excavations at Kestor, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Vol. 20. pp.87-102 (1954)
- Newman, Phil, The Archaeology of Fernworthy Forest, Dartmoor, Devon. Supplement. The Lakeside Area and Lowton Farmsteads, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2013)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Twelfth Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.67 pp.115-30 (1935)
- Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 56, T.D.A. Vol.69 pp.75-109 (1937)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Dartmoor Hut Circles, T.D.A. Vol.77 pp.225-256 (1945)