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

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Hut circle settlement in the Erme valley
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle settlement in the Erme valley

An unenclosed settlement of up to eight stone hut circles, 7 to 9 m across inside, on the lower western slopes of Quickbeam Hill above the Erme.

Dartmoor quiz

Old books sometimes spell "Sittaford Tor" differently. Which of these is one of those spellings?

Siddaford Tor. It appears in 7 of the old books and papers in our research library, so the name has not always been written the way we write it now.

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Hut circle settlement near Swincombe
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle settlement near Swincombe

An unenclosed settlement of up to 21 hut circles, from 2.8 to 7.5 m across, below the end of the Dartmeet coaxial field system, above the Swincombe.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle settlement near Wedlake

A hut circle settlement of about 50 huts on the lower north-west slopes of Roos Tor, ten of them inside later enclosed fields and 42 on the open moor.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle settlement near White Hill

Five stone hut circles and a length of boundary wall at the foot of a long slope down from Hare Tor, north-east of White Hill, above the Walla Brook.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle settlement near White Tor

Bronze Age settlement of stone hut circles with associated fields and enclosures on the open moor south-west of White Tor.

Arms tor hawthornArms tor hawthorn. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“Even the half-wild cattle which range the other parts of the moor at pleasure, seem to shun the swampy steppes of the central wilderness.”

Also on Our DartmoorCairnfields on White Hill — Two Bronze Age cairnfields on White Hill: a western-slope field of about 26 mounds above Lydford and a northern-slope field of at least 22 above the Walla Brook, in six scheduled monuments.