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Prehistoric Settlements

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

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Enclosure and two hut circles on Eastern Tor
Prehistoric Settlements

Enclosure and two hut circles on Eastern Tor

An irregular enclosure of about 0.3 hectare on the south-east slope of Eastern Tor with two free-standing hut circles, each 8 m across with double-faced walls.

Prehistoric Settlements

Enclosure north-west of Gutter Tor

A small sub-rectangular enclosure 11 m by 10 m with a bank 1 m wide and a 3 m pen against its west wall, on the north slope of Gutter Tor beside the Eylesbarrow reave.

Dartmoor quiz
“There was nobody to see him; all the brown moor was void with loneliness and lassitude; not a shadow, except his own, moved faster than the sun directed it.”

Who wrote this?

R. D. Blackmore. From Christowell (1882).

Worth a visit
Enclosure with one hut circle near Cross Gate
Prehistoric Settlements

Enclosure with one hut circle near Cross Gate

An irregular enclosure 47 m by 35 m divided into three, with one hut circle 5 m across whose doorway faces south-west, on a south slope above Burrator Reservoir.

Reaves & Field Systems

Eylesbarrow Reave by Brisworthy Plantation

A 300 m stretch of the Eylesbarrow watershed reave running north-east from Brisworthy Plantation up the west slope of Ringmoor Down, up to 2 m wide and 0.4 m high, cut at a cairn.