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Hillforts & Earthworks

Hillforts, castles, camps and defensive earthworks.

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Antiquities

'A' Range Firing Point (Disused)

Remnants of military range infrastructure scattered across open moorland, a tangible reminder of Dartmoor's twentieth-century uses.

Antiquities

'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.

Antiquities

Brent Hill Hifort

An Iron Age hilfort crowning the moorland ridges, with commanding views across Dartmoor's open plateaus.

Civil War redoubt near East Linnacombe
Antiquities

Civil War redoubt near East Linnacombe

A Civil War defensive earthwork on the open moor south east of East Linnacombe, built to command the landscape during the 17th century conflict.

Heritage & Places

Cotley Castle

Longdown, Chudleigh

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

Cranbrook Castle
Antiquities

Cranbrook Castle

A scheduled monument earthwork on Dartmoor, likely a medieval or Iron Age fortified settlement.