Hut circles, enclosures, pounds and reaves - where prehistoric Dartmoor lived and farmed.
A partly enclosed hut circle settlement with a tinner's shelter, inside an oval enclosure with courts and pounds, where the Blatchford Brook meets the Erme.
Bronze Age settlement of stone-built roundhouses on the moorland slopes above Higher Tor.
A hut circle settlement and a cairn on Holne Ridge above the O Brook: an agglomerated enclosure of two parts and three huts, cut by two tinners' leats.
A hut circle settlement above the O Brook: at least three enclosures and 18 huts, with a fine 0.7 m entrance flanked by slabs up to 0.75 m high, a cairn over a hut and prospecting pits.
Princetown, Yelverton
Three scheduled Bronze Age settlements on Walkhampton Common south-west and west of Devil's Bridge: 14 hut circles, six of them inside an enclosure.
Which Dartmoor place is this?
A hut circle 6 m across inside, with a wall 1 m thick and 0.4 m high, south-west of the western enclosure in a group south of Lee Moor.
Bonehill, Moretonhampstead
Bronze Age monument on Dartmoor.
Moorhaven Village, Ivybridge
Bronze Age dwelling rings scattered across open moorland.
Teignworthy, Chagford
Bronze Age dwelling preserved on open moorland, where stone foundations still mark an ancient Dartmoor home.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 84, 1900“The narrow vale of the Teign seen from this spot, thus enveloped in shade, seems to sink deeper down into gloom and pleasing mystery.”
Also on Our DartmoorDirection Post — A stone direction post at a remote five-way junction on Dartmoor, marking routes across the high moor.
