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

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Hut circle west of High-house Waste
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle west of High-house Waste

A hut circle 9 m across inside with a wall 1 m thick and 0.6 m high and a probable south-east entrance, west of High-house Waste.

Hut circles and enclosures near Great Nodden
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circles and enclosures near Great Nodden

Bridestowe, Okehampton

A Bronze Age settlement of hut circles and two circular enclosures on the west-facing slope below Great Nodden, above the River Lyd, with two outlying huts.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circles and longhouse on Wigford Down

A settlement in the middle of Wigford Down: two hut circles joined by a double-walled droveway, and a medieval longhouse with a stone cut JTCP.

Hut circles and settlements near Merrivale Bridge
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circles and settlements near Merrivale Bridge

Dartmoor Forest, Tavistock

Eight scheduled monuments east of Merrivale Bridge: a large partially enclosed Bronze Age hut circle settlement of at least 36 huts, its outlying huts and enclosure, and two isolated huts on Longash Common.

Hut circles between Hart Tor and Devil's Bridge
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circles between Hart Tor and Devil's Bridge

Princetown, Yelverton

A scheduled settlement of 36 Bronze Age hut circles in an irregular field system on the west-facing slope between Hart Tor and Devil's Bridge, 18 of them dug in 1895.

Hut circles E of Pritton
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circles E of Pritton

Two stone hut circles, each about 6 m across inside, on the lower western slopes of Honeybag Tor in the East Webburn valley.

Hut circles SE of Yar Tor
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circles SE of Yar Tor

Bronze Age settlement of hut circles on the moorland southeast of Yar Tor, visible as earthwork remains.

Devils elbowDevils elbow. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“Not a lone hill surrounded by bogs is without its great mound of earth or pile of stones over some dead man.”

Also on Our DartmoorMerrivale Stone Circle — A ring of 11 low stones, 18.5 m across, on Longash Common: the stone circle beside Merrivale's stone rows.