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Prehistoric Settlements

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

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Maristow Camp
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Maristow Camp

Iron Age or Bronze Age hilltop enclosure on the eastern moor, now a earthwork among open moorland.

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Northernmost hut circle

A Bronze Age stone hut circle, the northernmost structure in an unenclosed settlement at Watern Oke on Dartmoor.

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Piles Reave

A Bronze Age field boundary that still marks the moorland landscape after four thousand years.

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Pound

Scheduled Monument: a Bronze Age pound and cluster of hut circles on the open moorland north of Down Tor.

Pound
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Pound

Bronze Age settlement remains on the northern slopes of Hawk's Tor, with a livestock enclosure and at least two hut circles.

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Pound (Rems)

Crumbling stone walls of an ancient livestock pound nestled in Dartmoor's open moorland, a window into centuries of upland farming.

Pound at Newbridge
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Pound at Newbridge

A scheduled monument pound at Newbridge, likely medieval, where livestock was once held after straying onto Dartmoor common.

Pounds
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Pounds

Bronze Age settlement of pounds and hut circles on the northern slope of Saddlesborough, revealing prehistoric pastoral life on Dartmoor.

Roughtor parallel reave
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Roughtor parallel reave

A Bronze Age field system on Roughtor, marked by parallel lines of stone banks running across the moorland.