Hunters Tor Fort
Photo taken on 23-03-2016
Plan: J.C. Wall in Ancient Earthworks (1906)
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Resource: Table of Devon Iron Age Forts
OS Map: SX 76158 82443
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV8824
Megalithic Portal: 7759
Alternate name: Hunters Tor
Short Name: FT HuntersTor
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: PDW
Cairn Class: No
Lidar: SX 76158 82443
Nearest Bus Stop (Minor): Manaton Bus Shelter (1.7 km) [Route: 271,671]
Nearest Bus Stop (Major): Lustleigh Eastwrey Barton Hotel (2.0 km) [Route: 171,178]
Nearby sites: SX 76158 82443
Notes
"Iron Age hill-fort at Hunters' Tor: 'Three concentric enclosures, defences stone built and partly robbed for field walls. Inner entrance knobbed with embanked approach-road across second enclosure. Hill-top site.'"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, Prehistoric hillforts in Devon, (1996)
- Wall, J. Charles, Ancient Earthworks, The Victoria History of the County of Devon: v. 1 pp.573-630 (1906)