Foales Arrishes Settlement
Database entries
OS Map: SX 737 758
OS Source: Estimate
HER: MDV7415
Megalithic Portal: 4623
Alternate name: Foales Arrishes
Short Name: ST:FoalesArris
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Hut Class: No
Lidar: SX 737 758
Guide Map: 37
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Widecombe in the Moor Car Park (2.7 km) [Route: 271]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Poundsgate Tavistock Inn (4.9 km) [Route: 172]
Nearby sites: SX 737 758
Notes
HER: A hut settlement with 8 hut circles, set within parallel reaves on Blackslade Down, including the enclosure known as Foale’s Arrishes. The hut circles were contemporary with the reaves, being either attached to them or linked by shorter walls. The site is also notable for the later imposition of a rectangular stone enclosure, which incorporated some of the reave elements and hut circles. Excavated by the DEC in 1897. Breton p.78References
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.
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Fourth Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.29 pp.145-65 (1897)
- Breton, Henry Hugh, The Heart of Dartmoor, (1926)
- Burnard, Robert, Early Man, The Victoria History of the County of Devon: v. 1 (1906)
- Croker, J. G., A guide to the eastern escarpment of Dartmoor, (1851)
- 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, Rippon Tor Premier Archaeological Landscape, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2015)
- Ormerod, George Wareing, On the Hut-Circles of the Eastern Side of Dartmoor, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol.20 (1864)
- Radford, C.A.R., Prehistoric settlements on Dartmoor and the Cornish Moors, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Vol.18 pp.55-84 (1952)
- 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)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Prehistoric Pounds of Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.75 pp.273-302 (1943)
- Worth, R. Hansford, The Dartmoor Hut Circles, T.D.A. Vol.77 pp.225-256 (1945)