Pound on Shaugh Moor
A strongly built enclosure on Shaugh Moor with two terraced hut circles, joined to part of the Shaugh Moor coaxial field system.
Hut circles, enclosures, pounds and reaves - where prehistoric Dartmoor lived and farmed.
A strongly built enclosure on Shaugh Moor with two terraced hut circles, joined to part of the Shaugh Moor coaxial field system.
“Do you tweat? I tweat. I don't like it and I reckon us won't do any more work." ... "Be you like the piskies yet?”
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A 350 m length of reave over the summit of Hingston Hill, a rubble bank 2 m wide, separating a group of ritual monuments from a large settlement.
Four hut circles, 3 to 5 m across, a cairnfield of 17 cairns on a terrace and four tinners' trial pits, on the north-west slope of Roos Tor above the Colly Brook.
A 700 m reave with a bank 4 m wide and 1 m high, with traces of upright-stone facing and a later ditch, between the Eylesbarrow watershed reave and Roughtor Plantation.
A prehistoric pound on a west-facing slope of Ingra Tor, 58 m by 54 m inside, with a stone hut circle in the middle.
At least seven hut circles, 2.4 to 6.8 m across, two with courtyards, on a west slope above the Walkham, west of Yellowmeade Farm.
At least three coaxial fields of the Shapley Common field system on the north slope of Shapley Tor, with four parallel reaves running to a terminal reave.
At least five hut circles, 5.3 to 7.7 m across, and four rectangular fields of the Shapley Common field system on a north slope above Green Combe, the fields laid out to avoid the huts.
Six large hut circles, 23 to 88 square metres inside, arranged in an oval round a central space on a west slope above the Walkham, south-west of Routrundle.