White Tor Fort
Photo taken on 25-07-2010
Database entries
PDW coverage: Dartmoor Site: White Tor Fort
OS Map: SX 54246 78678
OS Source: Google
HER: MDV4101
Megalithic Portal: 17506
Alternate name: White Tor
Short Name: FT White Tor
DPD page: 13
Exist: Yes
Record: Duplicate
Record Source: PDW
Hut Class: No
Lidar: SX 54246 78678
Guide Map: 24
Nearest Bus Stop: Merrivale Dartmoor Inn (4.7 km) [Route: 98,171,172]
Nearby sites: SX 54246 78678
Notes
The White Tor camp is a Neolithic Enclosure which was once assumed to have been repurposed as an Iron Age fort. There used to be a separate HER entry to this end but this has been removed as the consensus now is that it is predominantly a Neolithic feature.HER quoting Newman: Previously thought to have been an Iron Age 'camp' by early investigators, the stone enclosure on Whittor is now thought to be a Neolithic tor enclosure.
This record is being retained here but marked as a duplicate of the Neolithic entry, see White Tor (Whittor) Neolithic Enclosure.
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.
- Anderson, I. K. (Rev.), Eleventh Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.38 pp.101-113 (1906)
- Baring-Gould, Sabine, Sixth Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, T.D.A. Vol.31 pp.146-155 (1899)
- Basell L, Bray L, Webber H, Randall S, Crabb A, Dartmoor Tor Enclosures Survey, PAST newsletter of the Prehistoric Society No. 95 Summer 2020 (2020)
- Brailsford, J. W, Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor, Antiquity Volume 12, Number 48 pp.444-63 (1938)
- Brent, Francis, Prehistoric Remains on Dartmoor, Journal of the British Archaeological Association Vol.39 pp.217-222 (1883)
- Lethbridge, William D., Discover Preshistoric Dartmoor, (2015)
- 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, Southwest Landscape Investigations (2018)
- Pilkington-Rogers, C. W., The Date of the Dartmoor Antiquities, T.D.A. Vol.64 pp.379-388 (1932)
- Prowse, Arthur B., Notes on the Neighbourhood of White Tor, West Dartmoor, T.D.A. Vol.21 pp.166-170 (1889)
- 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)