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Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circles, enclosures, pounds and reaves - where prehistoric Dartmoor lived and farmed.

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A near reave on Hingston Hill
Antiquities

A near reave on Hingston Hill

A 350-metre length of Bronze Age reave, a boundary wall built across the open moorland northwest of Combshead Tor.

Heritage & Places

Beehive Hut

Postbridge, Chagford

A mysterious stone beehive dwelling, its circular walls still standing on open moorland after over a thousand years.

Heritage & Places

Beehive Hut

Leighon, Bovey Tracey

A Bronze Age shelter huddled on the open moor, its stone walls still standing after thousands of years of Dartmoor weather.

Heritage & Places

Beehive Hut (Remains)

Challacombe, Chagford

Stone foundations of an Iron Age or Bronze Age dwelling, weathered into the Dartmoor granite landscape.

Antiquities

Belstone Pound

A sturdy stone-walled enclosure on the open moor, built to pen stray livestock in the days when Dartmoor's commons were fiercely defended.

Broadun Ring
Antiquities

Broadun Ring

Bronze Age enclosed settlement on the northern moor, marked by a ring of earthwork ramparts.