Prehistoric Settlements

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.

Agglomerate enclosure near Raddick Hill

Bronze Age settlement of stone hut circles and an enclosure on the high moorland west of Raddick Hill.

Agglomerated enclosure with hut circles

Scheduled Monument combining Bronze Age hut circles with the remains of a later farmstead, set among rocky outcrops on the open moor.

Beehive Hut

Postbridge, Chagford

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

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)

Challacombe, Chagford

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

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

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

Circular enclosure near Great Parford

A Bronze Age circular enclosure north of Great Parford, a scheduled monument marking prehistoric settlement on Dartmoor.