Roughtor Moors

Nearest town:
Hallworthy (9km NNE)
OS reference:
SX14498023
OS sheet:
200
Latitude:
50° 35' 29.98 N
Longitude:
4° 37' 16.43 W
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Images

Image of Roughtor Moors (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by postman

Round house and Brown Willy in the yonder.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Mar 21, 2016
Image of Roughtor Moors (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by postman

Entrance to pound with round houses fore and central.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Mar 21, 2016
Image of Roughtor Moors (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by postman

The western extremities of the settlement.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Mar 21, 2016
Image of Roughtor Moors (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by postman

Presumably a Bronze age settlement, there special place, Fernacre stone circle is just above.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Mar 21, 2016
Image of Roughtor Moors (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by postman

Garrow Tor above, Fernacre stone circle in the middle and Rough tor moor settlement lower.

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman Mar 21, 2016
Image of Roughtor Moors (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by thesweetcheat

The settlement occupies much of the ground between here and the steeper slopes of Rough Tor itself.

Image credit: A. Brookes (19.6.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 12, 2015
Image of Roughtor Moors (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by thesweetcheat

Linear feature along the southeast of the settlement, looking towards Louden Hill.

Image credit: A. Brookes (19.6.2015)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Jul 12, 2015

Articles

Roughtor Moors

postman
postman Mar 21, 2016

If you had a time machine and wanted to bring a bronze age man to the present, you could do a lot worse than coming here, there was loads of them, women and children too. It’s hard to tell where one settlement starts and another begins, nearly a mile separates one from another but not much seems to separate the two, it’s all as big as a small modern town, are they even separate places at all ?
The ground is covered in lines of stones, long boundaries, big pounds with round houses in them, houses here and there and every where with the odd cairn thrown in just to confuse us, no wonder there’s so many stone circles round here, this was a seething pot of humanity or as Obi Wan would call ” a wretched hive of scum and villainy.”
If these are all bronze age houses and there isnt much reason not to believe so, then it’s a small logical step to presume that Fernacre stone circle barely a hundred yards away was the special place of those who lived here.
The past doesn’t come to life here, it’s all in the mind, but it does.

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