East Lowton settlement

Nearest town:
Okehampton (14km WNW)
OS reference:
SX6653783668
OS sheet:
191
Latitude:
50° 38' 12.5 N
Longitude:
3° 53' 15.21 W
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Just a couple of minutes from the car, How could I not have come here before?

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Oct 11, 2020
Image of East Lowton settlement by postman

You can just see a flash of grey through the trees on the right, another hut circle, two actually.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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postman Oct 11, 2020
Image of East Lowton settlement by postman

Not sure what the shelf is, an inner skin of stones?

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postman Oct 11, 2020
Image of East Lowton settlement by postman

There is a large oval of stones across the track from the huts, I could only presume it be the remains of a pound.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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postman Oct 11, 2020
Image of East Lowton settlement by postman

The oval of stones across the track from the huts.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
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postman Oct 11, 2020
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Looking over number three to number four. (my numbering)

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postman Oct 11, 2020

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East Lowton settlement

postman
postman Oct 11, 2020

Just south of the Metherall settlement there is an east west running stretch of road, nice and straight, with a parking place on it’s south side and a gate leading to a track into the forest.
Walking south west along the track it bends to head in a more southerly direction, immediately the trees on the left open out into a clearing, there are two hut circles here. The first one is quite good, short grass neatly trimmed, a few big stones, lounging in the shade of some fine Beech trees. Turning we find the second hut circle, this one is definitely a house not a hut. West facing entrance, big stones all the way round, with a weird shelf like thing inside the wall, possibly a second inner wall?. Then back to the track.

Just thirty meters up the track a clearing opens on the right, there are no hut circles here but there is a big oval of knee to waist high stones, I followed it round wondering what it could be, I could only come up with the remains of a pound. Back to the track and in another clearing across the track are the other two hut circles. The lower of the two is the vaguest of the four huts, not much to get excited about. But the fourth is quite the looker, made of big stones, next to a small drift of big stones. Map says one of these circles is a cairn circle but this is another hut, I think they got it a bit wrong, there are just the four hut circles, but they are good ones and should be sought out if nearby with time to spare.

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