The phrase "abandoned settlement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a place where people once lived but have since left, often implying that the area is now deserted or in disrepair.
Example: "The explorers stumbled upon an abandoned settlement, overgrown with weeds and remnants of old structures."
Alternatives: "deserted village" or "forsaken community."
I left the old man to his radio and walked down into the abandoned settlement.
Near the abandoned settlement is a bare stone ledge overhanging a fjord.
In February 2001, local residents uncovered a grave in an abandoned settlement not far from the main Russian military base in Chechnya, at Khankala.
It was a synagogue, and with it was a small, abandoned settlement, fitted out with streetlights, neatly tiled outdoor tables and an elaborate drainage system.
Leery of French ambitions on the coast, he founded Santa Elena to the north – near an abandoned settlement of French Huguenots who had mutinied a few years earlier.
The film opens with a group of eight marines sent to investigate a disturbance at Olduvai Research Facility on Mars, site of experimental biological research, and coincidentally, an ancient civilization's abandoned settlement.
Plant and soil data were sampled on and around abandoned settlements.
Their abandoned settlements are in ruins, deserted apart from volunteers from the National Trust for Scotland working on conservation projects.
The abandoned settlements start soon after, weedy and overgrown, with peeling walls and moldy roofs decaying from neglect.
This method is especially powerful when sequentially dated abandoned settlements or features are studied to provide mechanistic understanding of assemblage and/or site formation through degradation.
Both total numbers and dry biomass of these two invertebrate orders were higher on abandoned settlements in comparison with the surrounding landscape.
