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Prehistoric Settlements

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

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Routrundle Pound
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Routrundle Pound

A medieval livestock enclosure on Dartmoor, built to contain animals on the open moorland.

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Sixteen hut circles

Sixteen stone hut circles on Cox Tor's north-east slope, remains of a prehistoric settlement.

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Small hut circle, Watern Oke

A Bronze Age stone hut circle at Watern Oke, part of an unenclosed settlement on Dartmoor's high moorland.

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Ten hut circles, Watern Oke

Ten Bronze Age hut circles clustered at Watern Oke, traces of an open settlement on the high moor.

Three enclosed hut groups
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Three enclosed hut groups

Three groups of Bronze Age roundhouse foundations on Huntingdon Warren, evidence of early moorland settlement.

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Three hut circles

Three Bronze Age stone hut circles on Cox Tor's north-east slope, part of an open settlement pattern.

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Three hut circles near Hen Tor

Bronze Age stone hut circles west of Hen Tor, part of a settled landscape where Dartmoor people built and lived for centuries.

Two enclosures near Crazy Well Pool
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Two enclosures near Crazy Well Pool

Bronze Age enclosures and cairn field on the open moor northeast of Crazy Well Pool, revealing patterns of prehistoric settlement.