West Saddlesborough Hut Circles

Also known as:
Hawks' Tor and Shaugh Moor settlement
Nearest town:
Plympton (7km S)
OS reference:
SX554634
OS sheet:
202
Latitude:
50° 27' 7.06 N
Longitude:
4° 2' 13.55 W
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Image of West Saddlesborough Hut Circles (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by thesweetcheat

Hawks’ Tor natural dolmen, to the SE of the settlement.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 9, 2013
Image of West Saddlesborough Hut Circles (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by thesweetcheat

Approaching Hawks’ Tor from the NE. On first sight it looks like a Chun Quoit or a Maen-y-Bardd.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 9, 2013
Image of West Saddlesborough Hut Circles (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by thesweetcheat

Hut circle lying to the immediate SSW of the terminal cairn circle of the stone row. Looking SW towards Plymouth.

Image credit: A. Brookes (3.2.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 6, 2013
Image of West Saddlesborough Hut Circles (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by Mr Hamhead

Is this the cairn circle? It is the only ‘circle’ in line with the row, although a little away from the end stone, beside the star post in the distance. I am still a little unsure..it could easily be a hut circle.

Mr Hamhead
Mr Hamhead Mar 22, 2009
Image of West Saddlesborough Hut Circles (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by pure joy

West Saddlesborough Hut Circles – 25.6.2004 – One of the best hut circles in the area. Looking towards the road (i.e. the west)

Image credit: Martin Bull
pure joy
pure joy Jul 4, 2004
Image of West Saddlesborough Hut Circles (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by pure joy

West Saddlesborough Hut Circles – 25.6.2004 – One of the best hut circles in the area. The picture shows the ‘double skin’ of the exterior wall quite well.

Image credit: Martin Bull
pure joy
pure joy Jul 4, 2004

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West Saddlesborough Hut Circles
Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 9, 2013

Hawks’ Tor is a prominent rock outcrop to the SE of the settlement. Approaching from Saddlesborough summit cairns it greatly resembles a quoit or portal dolmen.

William Crossing notes it:

This is a small pile, but a very curious one. One end of a large slab of granite rests on what is the main part of the tor, its other end being supported on a boulder standing on the lesser and lower part of the tor, a kind of small chamber thus being formed beneath it. There is some reason for supposing this arrangement to be artificial, though it is difficult to see what the object could have been intended for. It has been suggested that it was a dolmen. Polwhele, writing in 1793, says that several had supposed it to be such, though he was not of that opinion.

From “Crossing’s Guide To Dartmoor” (2nd ed 1912).

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