Saddlesborough settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
SX557633

Nearest town:

Plympton (7km S)

OS reference:

SX557633

OS sheet:

202

Latitude:

50° 27' 4.09 N

Longitude:

4° 1' 58.21 W

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Images (9)
Miscellaneous (1)

Images

Image of Saddlesborough settlement by thesweetcheat

Hut circle near Enclosure “B”, looking north.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Saddlesborough settlement by thesweetcheat

Detail of the outer wall of Enclosure “A”, the best preserved in the settlement.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Saddlesborough settlement by thesweetcheat

Fine hut circle in Enclosure “A”, showing near-complete inner facing of the walls.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Saddlesborough settlement by thesweetcheat

In-situ door jambs of one of the Enclosure “A” hut circles.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Well-preserved hut circle near Enclosure “C”.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Saddlesborough settlement by thesweetcheat

Detail of the outer wall of Enclosure “C”.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Saddlesborough settlement by thesweetcheat

One of several hut circles not attached to one of the bigger enclosures.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Saddlesborough settlement by thesweetcheat

Remains of Enclosure “D”, reduced to an arc of upright slabs on its northern side.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Image of Saddlesborough settlement by thesweetcheat

Enclosure “E”, at the northwest of the settlement.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)

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Articles

Saddlesborough settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork

thesweetcheat Feb 7, 2013

Jeremy Butler’s excellent “Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities – Volume 3 – the South-West” (1994, Devon Books) has a plan of this extensive settlement and notes that since the encroachment of the clay works to the north, there are 27 hut circles and 7 associated enclosures remaining.

The settlement is situated on the northern slopes of Saddlesborough, the summit of which was graced with a number of (now-damaged) cairns. It is not inter-visible with West Saddlesborough/Shaugh Moor settlement and field system and a substantial reave separates the two.

A further enclosure to the north was destroyed by clay workings, but was fully excavated prior to destruction. Dates for the start of the settlement may be as early as 1870 BC, with intermittent occupation well into the Iron Age.

Sites within 20km of Saddlesborough settlement

Saddlesborough

0.14km ESE
Saddlesborough summit cairns

Cairn(s) • 0.21km E

3

1
West Saddlesborough Hut Circles

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 0.32km W

8

2
West Saddlesborough Stone Row & Cairn Circle

Stone Row / Alignment • 0.32km W

19

3
West Saddlesborough Cairn

Cairn(s) • 0.41km W

5

2
Emmets Post

Cairn(s) • 1.1km E

1

1
Collard Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 1.28km SSE

11

1
Shell Top South West

Enclosure • 1.8km W

9
Trowlesworthy Stone Row West

Stone Row / Alignment • 1.93km ENE

20

3

1
Dewerstone Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 1.96km W

4

4
Trowlesworthy Warren

Cist • 1.98km NE

1

1
Trowlesworthy Stone Row East

Stone Row / Alignment • 1.99km ENE

17

3

1
Wigford Down

Cairn(s) • 2.02km WNW

11

1
Trowlesworthy Warren

Stone Circle • 2.11km ENE

24

2

2
Ringmoor Down Reave

2.21km NNW

1
Trowlesworthy

2.33km ENE
Little Trowlesworthy Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 2.33km ENE

2
Brisworthy Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 2.34km NNE

57

1

8

1
Wigford Down

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 2.42km WNW

2
Ringmoor Down Cist

Cist • 2.53km NNE

3

1
Ringmoor Cairn Circle and Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 2.67km N

52

7

3
Ringmoor Kerbed Cairn

Kerbed Cairn • 2.73km N

6
Legis Tor Cist

Cist • 2.78km NE

5

1
Tory Brookhead

Enclosure • 2.79km ENE

7
Willings Walls Reave

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 2.81km ENE

1

1
Tory Brookhead

Cairn(s) • 2.9km ENE
Cholwich Town (destroyed)

Stone Row / Alignment • 2.96km E

1

2
Spanish Lake

Cist • 3km ENE

1
Ringmoor Down cairns

Cairn(s) • 3.13km NNE

3
Willings Walls Warren cist

Cist • 3.13km NE

2
Willings Wall Warren

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 3.32km NE

3
Ditsworthy Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 3.53km NE

1

1
Boringdon Camp

Hillfort • 3.92km SSW

13

1
Gutter Tor settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 3.94km NNE

3
Gutter Tor Cist

Cist • 3.98km NNE

12

1
Shell Top

Cairn(s) • 4.02km ENE

3
Gutter Tor cairns

Cairn(s) • 4.12km NNE

6
Gutter Tor

Natural Rock Feature • 4.16km NNE

2
Penn Beacon

Cairn(s) • 4.2km E

2
Hen Tor North / Shavercombe Brook

Cairn(s) • 4.23km NE

7

1
Penn Beacon South

4.26km E

3
St Leonard’s Well

Sacred Well • 4.31km N

2

2
Whittenknowles Rocks Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 4.71km NE

8

1
Yellowmead Multiple Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 4.84km NNE

52

3

11

3
Yellowmead SE cairn

Cairn(s) • 4.91km NNE

3

2
Drizzlecombe Megalithic Complex

Complex • 5.16km NE

116

8

1
Roborough Beacon

Enclosure • 5.2km W

8

2
Eylesbarrow South West

Cist • 5.35km NNE

9

2
Outcombe

Cist • 5.36km NNE

1

1
Ditsworthy Warren

Cist • 5.45km NE

7

1
Higher Hartor Tor

Round Cairn • 5.64km NE

3

1
Dendles Waste

Cist • 5.81km E

1

1
Plym Steps Round Cairn

Round Cairn • 5.98km NE

5
Plym Steps

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 6.05km NE

10
Cuckoo Rock

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 6.07km NNE

2

1
Langcombe Brook / Deadman’s Bottom

Cairn(s) • 6.09km NE

35

1
Leather Tor South

Cist • 6.22km N

2
Maristow Camp

Enclosure • 6.25km W
Ranny Brook

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 6.28km ENE

3

1
Grim’s Grave

Ring Cairn • 6.3km ENE

14

1
Down Tor South

Cist • 6.33km NNE

2

1
Calveslake Tor

Cairn(s) • 6.59km NE

2

1
Peek Hill

Ring Cairn • 6.6km NNW

1

1
Down Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 6.67km NNE

69

1

7

1
Down Tor NW

Round Cairn • 6.69km NNE

1
Coombebrook North East

Cairn(s) • 6.71km E

1

1
Hingston Hill North

Cist • 6.72km NNE

3
Eylesbarrow

Cairn(s) • 6.75km NE

15

3
Harrowthorn Plantation North

Cairn(s) • 6.77km E

1

1
Narrator Brook Head enclosure

Enclosure • 7.03km NNE

9

2
Narrator Brook Head cairn

Cairn(s) • 7.05km NNE

10

1
Stalldown Cairns

Cairn(s) • 7.14km E

6

1
Sharpitor

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 7.29km NNW

10

5
Sharpitor cairns

Cairn(s) • 7.39km NNW

16

2
Sharpitor Cist

Cist • 7.41km NNW

3

2
Horseyeatt

Stone Row / Alignment • 7.43km NNW

4

1
Great Gnat’s Head

Cairn(s) • 7.46km NE

2

1

1
Stalldown Stone Row cairns

Cairn(s) • 7.52km E

4

2

1
Leeden Tor South

Cist • 7.53km N

1

1
Stalldown cairn circle

Cairn circle • 7.53km E

5
Stalldown Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 7.54km E

40

1

6

2
Stalldown Stone Row Cairn NE

Cairn(s) • 7.6km E

4

2
Stalldown Stone Row Cairn S

Cairn(s) • 7.63km E

3

2

1
Stall Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 7.85km ENE

15

6

1
Raddick Hill

Cairn(s) • 7.88km N

17
Stall Moor Cairn

Cairn(s) • 7.94km ENE

5

2
Blatchford Bottom settlements

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 8km ENE

3
Erme Plains

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 8.03km ENE

1
Hillson’s House

Cairn(s) • 8.13km E

5

2

1
Black Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 8.17km N

17
Stalldown South-East

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 8.24km E

8

2
Erme Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 8.32km ENE

4

1
Hook Lake

Stone Row / Alignment • 8.46km ENE

3

1
Hook Lake

Enclosure • 8.53km ENE

4

1
Burford Down

Stone Row / Alignment • 8.59km E

18

5
Hart Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 8.63km N

45

1

3
Burford Down cairn and cist

Cairn(s) • 8.64km E

8

1
Black Tor

Rocking Stone • 8.66km N

8

1
Fox Tor Mire

Cist • 8.67km NE

1

1
Ingra Tor

Cist • 8.69km NNW

1

1
Stall Moor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 9.07km ENE

12

2
Goldsmith’s Cross/Fox Tor Mire

Cist • 9.13km NE

4

1
Harford Moor

Cist • 9.3km E

15

2
Sharp Tor

Cairn(s) • 9.39km E

5

1
Piles Hill stone row

Stone Row / Alignment • 9.52km E

3

1
Yes Tor Bottom

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.54km N

1

1
Devil’s Gully Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.57km NNE

8
Three Barrows

Cairn(s) • 9.6km E

10
Butter Brook Ford

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 9.63km E

5

1
Childe’s Tomb

Cist • 9.67km NE

5

2
Western White Barrow

Cairn(s) • 9.79km ENE

9

3
Piles Hill cairns

Cairn(s) • 9.86km E

8

2
Piles Hill longstone

Standing Stone / Menhir • 10.01km E

12

2
Weatherdon Hill

Cairn(s) • 10.3km E

2

1
Butterdon stone row

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.31km E

16

1

3
Buckland Ford Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 10.37km ENE

10
Glasscombe Ball

Cairn(s) • 10.38km E

3

2
Glasscombe Ball North

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.43km E

1
Addicombe

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 10.44km E
Ter Hill

Cist • 10.53km NE

2

1
Hucken Tor

Natural Rock Feature • 10.55km NNW

1

1
Broken Barrow

Round Cairn • 10.56km NE

10

1
Spurrell’s Cross Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.65km E

6

2
Glasscombe Corner

Stone Row / Alignment • 10.66km E

11

2
Butterdon Hill (north) cairn

Round Cairn • 10.66km E

3

1
Butterdon Hill cairns

Cairn(s) • 10.79km E

21

2
Royal Hill Cist

Cist • 10.8km NE

24
Butterdon Hill cairn circle

Cairn circle • 10.86km E

4

2
Eastern White Barrow

Cairn(s) • 10.91km ENE

9

1

1
Royal Hill

10.91km NNE
Corringdon Ball Stone Row

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 10.95km E

15

1
Huntingdon Warren Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 10.98km ENE

1

1
Glaze Meet

Cairn(s) • 11.02km E

3

1
Heap of Sinners

Cairn(s) • 11.06km ENE

11

1

2
Vixen Tor

Cist • 11.09km NNW

14

4

1
Yellowmeade

Cist • 11.11km N

2

1
Biller’s Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.22km ENE

2

1
The Crock of Gold Cist

Cairn(s) • 11.23km NNE

4

1

3
Merrivale Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 11.3km NNW

39

3
Western Beacon

Cairn(s) • 11.3km E

19

5
Corringdon Ball Long Barrow

Long Barrow • 11.32km E

14

1
Butterdon Hill Chambered Tomb

Chambered Tomb • 11.33km E

8

2
Cuckoo Ball

Chambered Tomb • 11.41km E

13

2
Barn Hill / Whitchurch Down

Cist • 11.44km NNW

1

2
Snowdon

Cairn(s) • 11.46km ENE

6

1
Joan Ford’s Newtake

Cist • 11.48km NE

3

1
The Plague Market At Merrivale

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 11.49km NNW

105

19

1
Pecked Circle

Stone Circle • 11.5km NE

1
Cantrell Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 11.73km E

3

2
Merrivale Bridge Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 11.8km NNW

8

1

1
Blakey Tor

Cist • 11.84km NNE

5

1
Skir Hill

Cairn(s) • 11.93km NE

1
Rider’s Rings

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.1km ENE
Ryder’s Hill

Cairn(s) • 12.12km NE

2

1
Pupers Hill

Cairn(s) • 12.14km ENE

11

1

3
Brockhill Foot West

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.14km ENE

9

1
Swincombe Ford Newtake

Cairn(s) • 12.22km NE

2
Brockhill Ford West

Cairn(s) • 12.27km ENE

2
Brockhill Enclosed Settlements

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.3km ENE

1
Round Hill

Cairn(s) • 12.33km NNE

8
Aish Ridge

Stone Row / Alignment • 12.68km E

2

2
Sherberton Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 12.83km NE

26

4

1
Dean Moor

Cairn(s) • 12.84km ENE

8

1

1
Little Mis Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 12.99km NNW

8
Gripper’s Hill

Cairn(s) • 13.04km ENE

13

1

1
Cox Tor

Cairn(s) • 13.07km NNW

2

1
Down Ridge

Stone Circle • 13.19km NE

12

2
Mardle Valley

Cairn(s) • 13.21km ENE

1

1
Great Western Reave

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 13.26km NNW

1

1
Holne Moor

Cist • 13.37km NE

1

2
Harbourne Head cairns

Cairn(s) • 13.57km ENE

2

1
Long Plantation

Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art • 13.62km N

1

1

1

1
Harbourne Head

Standing Stone / Menhir • 13.96km ENE

5

1
Holne Moor Triple Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 14.11km NE

2
Dunnabridge Pound

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 14.36km NE

4

2
Roos Tor Northeast

Cairn(s) • 14.36km NNW

1
Aller Brook

Cist • 14.64km NE

1

1
Langstone Moor

Enclosure • 14.69km NNW

3
Brent Hill

Hillfort • 14.74km E

1
Wistman’s Wood

14.8km NNE

2

2
Langstone Moor

Cairn(s) • 14.81km NNW

4

1
Langstone Moor Stone Circle

Stone Circle • 14.89km NNW

18

1

4
Black Newtake

Cairn circle • 14.98km NNE

9

1
Mount Edgcumbe Barrow

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 15.1km SW

1

1
White Tor East

Cist • 15.33km NNW

6

1
Littaford Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15.36km NNE

1
White Tor Settlement

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15.39km NNW

17
Yar Tor Hut Circle

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15.42km NE

6
Laughter Tor

Standing Stone / Menhir • 15.43km NE

7

4
Langstone Moor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 15.5km NNW

10

1
Coffin Stone

Natural Rock Feature • 15.58km NE

1
Bellever Tor West

Cist • 15.59km NNE

8

1
Bellever

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 15.84km NNE

26

7

1
Stennen Hill

Cist • 15.99km NNE

9

1
Crow Tor

Cist • 16.02km NNE

2

1
Conies Down

Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue • 16.05km N

1
Yar Tor summit cairn

Cairn(s) • 16.11km NE

9

1
White Tor Stone Row

Stone Row / Alignment • 16.21km NNE

8

1

1
Yar Tor

Stone Row / Alignment • 16.28km NE

20

1

1
Arch Tor (South-West)

Round Cairn • 16.32km NNE

3
Beardown Man

Standing Stone / Menhir • 16.74km N

13

2
Riddon Ridge Field Systems

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 16.78km NE

3

1
Lakehead Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 16.8km NNE

43

2
Rowtor Bog Cairns

Cairn(s) • 16.8km NNE

16

1
Corndon Tor

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 16.85km NE

33

1
Riddon Ridge

Round Cairn • 16.92km NE

5
Kraps Ring

Enclosure • 17.14km NNE

4

1

1
Corndon Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 17.18km NE

1
Archerton, Newtake

Ring Cairn • 17.47km NNE

1

1

2
Hembury Castle

Hillfort • 17.62km ENE

19

5

1
Chittaford Down

Cist • 17.91km NNE

9

2
Chittaford Cairn and Cist

Cist • 18.01km NNE

8

2
Hingston Down East

Round Barrow(s) • 18.29km W

1
Roundy Park

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 18.31km NNE

3
Roundy Park

Cairn(s) • 18.31km NNE

16

2
Broad Down Cairn

Cairn(s) • 18.51km NNE

2

1
Treninnow Stone Monument

Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech • 18.58km SW

1
Heathfield Beacons

Round Barrow(s) • 18.66km NW

2
Treninnow Gatepost

Standing Stone / Menhir • 18.73km SW

1

1
Cator Common North Cairn

Cairn(s) • 18.76km NE

3

1
Hingston Down

Barrow / Cairn Cemetery • 18.9km W

1

1
Dupath Rounds

Enclosure • 19.08km W

1

1
Brent Tor

Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork • 19.2km NW

22

7
Castlewich Henge

Henge • 19.25km W

3

3
Soussons Common Cairn Circle

Cairn circle • 19.29km NE

23

8

2
Blackdown Rings

Hillfort • 19.64km ESE

1

1
Cut Hill

Stone Row / Alignment • 19.83km N

12

4
Kit Hill

19.95km W

2

1