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

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Watern Oke: small hut circle
Prehistoric Settlements

Watern Oke: small hut circle

A small hut circle 3.2 m across inside, with a wall 1.1 m wide and 0.4 m high, at Watern Oke; the exploration committee did not dig or survey it.

Watern Oke: ten hut circles
Prehistoric Settlements

Watern Oke: ten hut circles

Ten huts at Watern Oke, six round, three oval and one two-roomed, dug in 1905 and yielding charcoal, cooking stones, sling and rubbing stones, pottery and flint.

Watern Oke: the northernmost hut
Prehistoric Settlements

Watern Oke: the northernmost hut

The northernmost hut at Watern Oke, a small oval hut of single upright stones, 1.7 m by 1.3 m inside, with an east door and a bench found in the excavation.

White Ridge enclosures and field system
Prehistoric Settlements

White Ridge enclosures and field system

Three agglomerated enclosures with about 21 hut circles, a kerbed cairn and part of the Stannon block field system on White Ridge in Great Stannon Newtake; eight huts dug in the 1890s.

Dartmoor quiz
“I be mazed 'bout blue." ... "Butter be mazed twice a year, they say" ... "It un't going to bittle." ... "Do it vitty, now.”

Which book is this from?

Through a Dartmoor Window. Written by Beatrice Chase in 1915.

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Bellever Tor settlement and field system
Prehistoric Settlements

Bellever Tor settlement and field system

A block of 17 small fields with nine hut circles and three enclosures, one of them 500 m by 300 m, on the ridge between Bellever Tor and Lakehead Hill, with a small cairn.