Hillforts & Earthworks

Nattadon Hill fort

Iron Age monument on Dartmoor.

Outer Huccaby Ring

Hexworthy, Ashburton

A Bronze Age hillfort on open moorland, its concentric rings still visible after thousands of years of wind and weather.

Oval enclosure in Boro' Wood

A large oval enclosure in Boro' Wood, 256 m by 160 m inside, read in turn as a hillfort, a stock enclosure, a copper mine or a woodland bank.

Place Wood Hillfort

Iron Age monument on Dartmoor.

Prestonbury Castle (fort)

Iron Age fort crowning a Dartmoor ridge, its ramparts still defining the moorland skyline after two millennia.

Prestonbury Castle (hillfort)

A small hillfort on Prestonbury Common above the Teign, with three enclosures: an inner one 150 m by 93 m, a middle one 100 m by 60 m and a wide outer one 280 m by 150 m.

Rider's Rings

Shipley Bridge, Buckfastleigh

Bronze Age stone circles on open moorland, their purpose still debated after millennia on Dartmoor.

Roman hill fort

Iron Age fort crowning a Dartmoor hilltop, where ramparts still trace the defensive ambitions of ancient communities.

South Longridge Wood hillfort

An Iron Age hillfort 66.5 m by 62 m with a rampart up to 9 m wide, outer ditch, and a 29 m medieval longhouse built inside it, above the River Lyd in South Longridge Wood.