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'B' Range Firing Point (Disused)
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'B' Range Firing Point (Disused)

A stark concrete relic of Cold War training on Dartmoor's open moorland, where British forces once prepared for conflict.

Dartmoor quiz

Which Dartmoor place has also been known as "Cosdon Beacon"?

Cosdon Hill. Cosdon Hill, also known as Cosdon Beacon, is a prominent rounded hill on Dartmoor's northern edge, topped by a large cairn and an OS trig point.

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Hillforts & Earthworks

'F' Range Redoubt (remains)

Stark stone foundations of a Victorian military redoubt, half-buried in Dartmoor's open moorland.

Burley Wood motte and hillfort
Hillforts & Earthworks

Burley Wood motte and hillfort

A 44 m motte 4 m high with two baileys beside an oval Iron Age hillfort with a double rampart, 144 m by 94 m, and five more banks and ditches on its south side, in Burley Wood.

Civil War redoubt near East Linnacombe
Hillforts & Earthworks

Civil War redoubt near East Linnacombe

A Civil War redoubt with a square platform 13.9 m across inside two ditches, resembling the Scots Redoubt at Newark, possibly built in 1642 to guard the Cornish side of Okehampton; medieval pottery was found in a 1986 dig.

Hillforts & Earthworks

Cotley Castle

Longdown, Chudleigh

Enigmatic Iron Age earthworks hidden in Dartmoor's high moorland, their purpose still debated by archaeologists.