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Watern Oke is an unenclosed prehistoric settlement in Devon comprising sixty stone hut circles. The site dates to the Bronze Age and represents a substantial upland community organised without the defensive or demarcating enclosure walls characteristic of some contemporary settlements. The hut circles, constructed from stone, are distributed across the landscape and indicate sustained occupation and habitation patterns typical of Bronze Age pastoral and agricultural communities in the South West. The density and arrangement of the structures at Watern Oke provide evidence for the social organisation and settlement dynamics of Bronze Age Devon.
Sixty stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011559. View the official record →
Watern Oke is an unenclosed prehistoric settlement in Devon comprising sixty stone hut circles. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011559.
Sixty stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1011559.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Three stone alignments, ten cairns, three stone hut circles and a length of the Great Western Reave on Longash Common (8.9 km), A stone circle, standing stone, cairn, recumbent stone and stone alignment on Longash Common (9 km), Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement, two cairns and a route marker 325m north west of Yellowmeade Farm (9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Sixty stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Sixty stone hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.