Black Tor

Nearest town:
Bodmin (10km SW)
OS reference:
SX158733
OS sheet:
201
Latitude:
50° 31' 47.32 N
Longitude:
4° 35' 57.52 W
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Black Tor

Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Oct 3, 2008

Approached from Temple Bridge, just south of the A30, this complex of 94 huts and enclosures is possibly best visited in the spring, before the bracken covers it. I found it quite hard to make out things in amongst the autumnal undergrowth. There are loads of upright stones..presumably all doorways..you get to the point where you have seen half a dozen why go looking for more.
Don’t think many people get out on this bit of the moor...

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Black Tor
Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
pure joy
pure joy May 15, 2003

Mentioned by Craig Weatherhill, in “Cornovia: Ancient Sites of Cornwall & Scilly” (Cornwall Books – 1985, revised 1997 & 2000 as a  “huge open settlement, probably Bronze Age, containing about 80 round houses within an area of 4 ha. The huts are between 5.0m and 11.0m in diameter, with walls up to 1.0m high and 1.6m thick. Most have south to south-east facing entrances, often with upright jambstones in place. Some of the hut entrances have stone-lined approaches, and many huts either adjoin others or are linked by lengths of low walling. Most, however, are free-standing. Evidence of field enclosures as fragmentary, but best seen to the south-east of the settlement.”

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