Hut circles, enclosures, pounds and reaves - where prehistoric Dartmoor lived and farmed.
Two stone hut circles up to 9 m across inside, part of a settlement in a coaxial field system on the lower northern slopes of Wigford Down.
Two small hut circles, 3.7 m and 4.2 m across inside, with rubble walls 1.7 m wide, above the North Teign near the confluence of the Gallaven and Walla Brooks.
Two hut circles, 7 m and 7.6 m across inside, with stony walls up to 0.5 m high and a boundary wall of upright stones, on the west slope of Rippon Tor.
Two hut circles, each 6 m across inside, with walls up to 0.75 m high, and a length of upright-stone wall that may be an enclosure, on a west slope above the Walkham.
“But nothing so natural, gentle reader; for when one gets into a Dartmoor mist there is no saying whither he may wander.”
Which book is this from?
Two oval enclosures, 50 m by 47 m and 36 m by 30 m, with strong earth and stone banks, on the lower north-east slopes of Dockwell Ridge.
Two ring cairns, 6.1 m and 10 m across inside, on a north-facing slope above the West Webburn, the eastern with six upright slabs that may mark a cist.
A double hut circle at Watern Oke of two rooms, 6.5 m by 4.5 m and 4.2 m across, with a boulder doorpost; the 1905 dig found hearths in both rooms.
A hut circle 4 m across inside, with a wall 1.5 m wide and 0.6 m high, terraced into a gentle south slope at Watern Oke.
Sixty hut circles, three cooking hearths and a stone-roofed cache at Watern Oke, one of the largest unenclosed settlements on Dartmoor, dug in 1905.
Plate from A Hundred Years on Dartmoor, page 115, 1901“I never cross her, vor I knaw I should be wuss off. I let her do as her minds to, and doan't never meddle wi' nothin' in the ouze.”
Also on Our DartmoorLength of reave near Feather Tor — A 290-metre stretch of Bronze Age reave forming part of an ancient field system on Whitchurch Common.
