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

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Pound on Shaugh Moor
Prehistoric Settlements

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.

Dartmoor quiz
“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?”

Who wrote this?

Beatrice Chase. From Through a Dartmoor Window (1915).

Worth a visit
Reave over Hingston Hill
Reaves & Field Systems

Reave over Hingston Hill

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.

Roos Tor hut circles and cairnfield
Prehistoric Settlements

Roos Tor hut circles and cairnfield

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.

Roughtor parallel reave
Reaves & Field Systems

Roughtor parallel reave

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.

Routrundle Pound
Prehistoric Settlements

Routrundle Pound

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.

Seven hut circles, Yellowmeade Farm
Prehistoric Settlements

Seven hut circles, Yellowmeade Farm

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.

Shapley Common coaxial fields
Reaves & Field Systems

Shapley Common coaxial fields

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.

Shapley Common hut circles and fields
Prehistoric Settlements

Shapley Common hut circles and fields

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 hut circles, Routrundle
Prehistoric Settlements

Six hut circles, Routrundle

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.