Hillforts, castles, camps and defensive earthworks.
Iron Age hilltop settlement on the open moor, where ancient stone foundations still trace the lives of Dartmoor's earliest inhabitants.
Scheduled hillfort earthwork in Fingle Woods above the Teign gorge, assumed to be Iron Age. A 2018 dig found a medieval radiocarbon date in the upper ditch fill and no dating evidence for the Iron Age assumption.
An Iron Age defended settlement on the summit of Berra Tor: an oval enclosure with a rampart up to 17 m wide and 1.7 m high.
Iron Age enclosed settlement south-east of Archerton, visible as earthwork remains on open moorland.
“Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me thy grey mare, / All along, down along, out along, lee. / For I want for to go to Widdecombe Fair, / Wi' Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, / Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawk, / Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all.”
Who wrote this?
A deserted medieval settlement of at least eight longhouses on the north-west slopes of East Hill above the West Okement.
A deserted medieval settlement of up to six buildings, at least two of them longhouses, on the lower north slopes of Black Down.
The earthwork remains of a medieval settlement abandoned centuries ago, west of Okehampton camp on the moor.
Mysterious earthwork remnants scattered across open moorland, revealing Bronze Age settlement patterns on Dartmoor's high plateau.
Two joined enclosures and a building on a ridge above the West Okement, in the Okehampton Park cleared by Hugh de Courtenay about 1300; the tithe map marks it 'hospital'.
Plate from A Hundred Years on Dartmoor, page 85, 1901“In Peter Tavy, too, may be seen " the spinners and knitters in the sun ; " and the very old and the very young are often seen together side by side ; and girls with their pitchers filling them with water from the little channels and rivulets that abound throughout the village. These present ...”
Also on Our DartmoorRoundhill — A small habitation on Dartmoor, noted in historical records and gazetteers.
