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Prehistoric Settlements

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

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Prehistoric Settlements

Arms Tor hut circle with a porch

A stone hut circle 6 m across inside with a west-facing doorway protected by a porch, at the south-west edge of the Arms Tor settlement.

Beehive Hut
Prehistoric Settlements

Beehive Hut

Postbridge, Chagford

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

Beehive Hut
Prehistoric Settlements

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.

Beehive Hut (Remains)
Prehistoric Settlements

Beehive Hut (Remains)

Challacombe, Chagford

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

Belstone Pound
Prehistoric Settlements

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.

Dartmoor quiz

Which Dartmoor place has also been known as "Lookout Tor and Tor Royal"?

South Hessary Tor. The tor is also known as Lookout Tor and Tor Royal, and it offers good views towards Sheepstor and Longaford Tor.

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Broadun Ring, Hartland Tor
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Broadun Ring, Hartland Tor

Broadun Ring: an oval enclosure 119 m by 79 m with a boulder-faced wall up to 6 m wide, at least 13 hut circles (ten dug in 1893), stone-splitting pits and a later field wall, near Hartland Tor.

Prehistoric Settlements

Cawsand Hill enclosures and hut circles

An agglomerate enclosure of three joined enclosures with seven hut circles, and three more huts to the south-west, on a north-west slope of Cawsand Hill above the Taw.

Circular enclosure, Great Parford
Prehistoric Settlements

Circular enclosure, Great Parford

A circular enclosure 15.2 m across inside a bank up to 7.6 m wide and 1.5 m high, terraced into a steep south-west slope, perhaps the platform of a round house, north of Great Parford.

Coaxial fields, Hartland Tor
Prehistoric Settlements

Coaxial fields, Hartland Tor

Coaxial fields on a single east-west axis either side of the East Dart at Hartland Tor, with a 150 m by 120 m enclosure of three huts and a settlement of four huts and five small enclosures, and ridge and furrow.