Hillforts, castles, camps and defensive earthworks.
A hillfort on Cranbrook Down with a square enclosure 160 m across, ramparts and ditches on three sides, and two entrances, partly dug by Baring-Gould in 1901.
Mill Leat, Buckfastleigh
Iron Age hilltop fort with sweeping views across Dartmoor, where ancient ramparts still command the moorland skyline.
Iron Age hillfort whose ramparts still command the open moorland above the West Dart River valley.
Buckland in the Moor, Ashburton
Mysterious earthwork ruins nestled on Dartmoor, where medieval stone foundations emerge from the heather.
An oval earthwork 49 m by 48 m inside, on the south-east side of Huccaby Tor, with a slight platform that may be a hut circle.
A small hillfort with three concentric ramparts, 116 m by 70 m inside, on a hill on the north side of the Bovey valley.
The Saxon burh of Lydford with its ringwork, castle keep, motte and bailey, scheduled in three areas.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“In the howling wilderness about Cranmere Pool, where are no traces of human habitation, there lie the dead.”
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