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Settlements and enclosures on Cox Tor
Reaves & Field Systems

Settlements and enclosures on Cox Tor

Six scheduled monuments on Cox Tor where prehistoric households lived inside enclosures: hut circles, walled yards and a small field system.

Settlements and hut circles on Raddick Hill
Prehistoric Settlements

Settlements and hut circles on Raddick Hill

Walkhampton, Yelverton

Three enclosed Bronze Age settlements and a pair of huts on the west-facing slope of Raddick Hill above the River Meavy: 26 hut circles in four scheduled monuments.

Shavercombe Foot house, fields and tin openwork
Prehistoric Settlements

Shavercombe Foot house, fields and tin openwork

A small two-roomed drystone house with two annexes and a yard, field walls and a tin openwork at Shavercombe Foot, perhaps Hentor Cot, home of a farm labourer in the early 1800s.

Site of Drake's birthplace
Other Heritage Sites

Site of Drake's birthplace

Walreddon, Tavistock

Crowndale Farm on the edge of Tavistock, where Sir Francis Drake was born around 1540, known only from his own account to biographer William Camden.

Skaigh Warren and Ivy Tor settlements
Prehistoric Settlements

Skaigh Warren and Ivy Tor settlements

Skaigh Warren on the north slope of Cosdon Hill: at least 21 pillow mounds, a warreners' shelter, ridge and furrow, two hut circle settlements and two cairnfields, one of 28 mounds.