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Industrial Archaeology

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

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Alluvial tin streamwork near the Brim Brook
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Alluvial tin streamwork near the Brim Brook

An alluvial tin streamwork beside the Brim Brook with three blocks of dumps, each with its own leat, and three tinners' buildings cut into the dumps, the largest 8.6 m long.

Settlements and hut circles on Raddick Hill
Prehistoric Settlements

Settlements and hut circles on Raddick Hill

Walkhampton, Yelverton

Three enclosed Bronze Age settlements and a pair of huts on the west-facing slope of Raddick Hill above the River Meavy: 26 hut circles in four scheduled monuments.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“Therefore the little river divides and leaps and tumbles foaming over the mossy granite, or creeps beneath the boulders by invisible ways.”

Also on Our DartmoorOkement Hill — A modest hill with an observation post, flanked by Hangingstone Hill and High Willhays.