Metherall Settlement

Nearest town:
Okehampton (13km WNW)
OS reference:
SX668840
OS sheet:
191
Latitude:
50° 38' 23.46 N
Longitude:
3° 53' 2.26 W
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Image of Metherall Settlement by Billy Fear

Here you can see the fine masonry of these houses and the deep passage entrance.
08.08.2011

Image credit: Billy Fear
Billy Fear
Billy Fear Mar 15, 2013
Image of Metherall Settlement by Billy Fear

Looking east. This hut is probably as good as never totally submerged as there is moss on top of some stones. But the trees obscure it quite well when the water level is at it’s maximum.
08.08.2011

Image credit: Billy Fear
Billy Fear
Billy Fear Mar 15, 2013
Image of Metherall Settlement by Billy Fear

Looking NE with Fernworthy Reservoir dam in background.
08.08.2011

Image credit: Billy Fear
Billy Fear
Billy Fear Mar 15, 2013
Image of Metherall Settlement by doug

This Hut Circle at SX670841 is usually submerged, but due too the recent hot weather, the waters at Fernworthy Reservior have receded, allowing one to glimpse this well formed hut circle. (round house).

Image credit: Doug
doug
doug Jul 11, 2005

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Metherall Settlement

postman
postman Oct 11, 2020

Please note, only the hut circles in the reservoir are from the Metherall settlement, all the others are from East Lowton settlement four hundred yards away to the south. Park in the car park just west of the Heath stone and head towards the reservoir looking for a building on the shore by a jetty. The partially submerged hut circle is just east of the jetty under some trees. At the time I didn’t know there is another three or four totally submerged hut circles, but the one we can see was enough to generate my interest in all the hut circle settlements around here.
Whilst I was sitting and wondering some ponies came over for a look at what I was doing, one of them was seriously suffering from joie de vivre, it was prancing about the place like a right nutter.
If you look down on the place on google earth you can see another hut circle right next to it but mostly under water, some stones are poking above the water, but you cant tell theyre from a hut.

Metherall Settlement

Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Jul 3, 2010

This group of huts and a cairn can be found a short distance uphill from the reservoir, turning left up a track soon after passing the visitor centre car park.
Though not signposted from the track they do have short posts beside them with identification numbers on.....if only the corresponding list was available to point out where the other antiquities could be found within the plantation!

The hut circles were easy to find and it was obvious that the forestry had kept them clear of any growth apart from grass.

I did not find the cairn circle as I was unclear just quite where it was and away from the track and the huts the terrain was overgrown and uneven...and it was too bloody hot to go too far off piste...

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