Hillforts & Earthworks
Hillforts, castles, camps and defensive earthworks.
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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.
Hillforts & Earthworks
'F' Range Redoubt (remains)
Stark stone foundations of a Victorian military redoubt, half-buried in Dartmoor's open moorland.
Hillforts & Earthworks
Blackdown Rings
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.
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.
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Somewhere in the heart of the great Grimpen Mire, down in the foul slime of the huge morass which had sucked him in, this cold and cruel-hearted man is forever buried.”
Also on Our DartmoorBerra Tor — A secluded, little-visited tor with a huge rock face on the south-west side, perched above Balstone Wood.
