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Industrial Archaeology

Tin mines, blowing houses, tramways and quarries - the moor's industrial past.

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Tinners' shelter, Cut Combe Water
Historic Buildings

Tinners' shelter, Cut Combe Water

A tinners' shelter 5.4 m by 2.9 m inside, a drystone wall up to 0.75 m high with an entrance gap, a recess that may be a cupboard and a raised platform, above Cut Combe Water.

Dartmoor quiz
A photograph of a place on Dartmoor; the question asks which
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

Which Dartmoor place is this?

Merrivale Antiquities. The stone rows, stone circle, standing stone, cairns and hut circles around Merrivale Bridge: Dartmoor's best-known group of Late Neolithic and Bronze Age ritual and settlement remains.

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Tinworks, Headland Warren
Industrial Archaeology

Tinworks, Headland Warren

Scheduled Monument with tinworks, field systems, settlements, warren and Bronze Age cairns near Headland Warren.

Tinworks, Stanlake
Industrial Archaeology

Tinworks, Stanlake

Scheduled Monument with tin workings and Bronze Age remains scattered across the Meavy valley floor and tor slopes.

Upper Merrivale tin mills
Industrial Archaeology

Upper Merrivale tin mills

The Upper Merrivale tin works on the Walkham: a blowing mill 11.1 m long and two stamping mills, excavated from 1991 to 1996 by the Dartmoor Tinworking Research Group, with dressing floors and an unfinished mould stone.

Wheal Betsy
Industrial Archaeology

Wheal Betsy

Kingsett, Tavistock

The dramatic stone ruins of a tin mine engine house stand sentinel on the open moor, a monument to Dartmoor's industrial past.

Industrial Archaeology

Wheal Jewell

Horndon, Tavistock

Crumbling stone ruins of a 19th-century tin mine nestled in Dartmoor's moorland, a haunting reminder of the region's industrial past.

Wheal Mary Emma
Industrial Archaeology

Wheal Mary Emma

Lydford, Okehampton

Wheal Mary Emma was a small tin mine beside the River Lyd below Brat Tor, worked from 1849 and named for its owner's ten-year-old daughter. Its capped shaft, dressing floor, smithy and office ruins survive on the slope above the river, close to the Captain Hunter Memorial.

Whitchurch Common streamworks and fields
Reaves & Field Systems

Whitchurch Common streamworks and fields

A big Whitchurch Common landscape: two eluvial tin streamworks (one 1.2 km long and up to 4 m deep), a coaxial field system, cairns, ring cairns, two hut circle settlements, two medieval farmsteads and Second World War gun and mortar pits.