Dead Lake Foot Settlement
Database entries
OS Map: SX 5643 7819
OS Source: HER
HER: MDV4202
Alternate name: Dead Lake Foot
Short Name: ST:DeadLake
Butler map: 30.1
Butler Vol 5: p.95
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: HER
Lidar: SX 5643 7819
Guide Map: 24
Nearest Bus Stop: Merrivale Dartmoor Inn (4.4 km) [Route: 98,171(20/07/26 to 19/09/26)]
Nearby sites: SX 5643 7819
Notes
HER: Small hut settlement located on the west bank of the River Walkham consisting of ten hut circles, a small circular stone feature and a short curved fragment of wall to the north. Similar to the Langstone Moor settlement but huts are small with smaller interiors and crudely built walls with no apparent facing stones. Likely to have been a seasonally occupied camp, perhaps a group of sheilings used in summer months. No evidence of enclosure.Plans: Gerrard (1997) p.45 Fig 24., Newman (2003) p.10 Fig 11, Butler (1991) p.67 Fig 30.1.
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)
- Gerrard, Sandy, English Heritage Book of Dartmoor: Landscapes Through Time, (1997)
- Newman, Phil, The Langstone Moor Stone Circle, Peter Tavy, Devon and its Prehistoric Environs, English Heritage (2003)
- Newman, Phil, Archaeological Sites within Merrivale Training Area (2018), Southwest Landscape Investigations (2018)