Hut circles, enclosures, pounds and reaves - where prehistoric Dartmoor lived and farmed.
Remains of a medieval rural settlement on the eastern slopes of Dartmoor, now visible as earthwork features across open moorland.
Two enclosures, 230 m by 130 m and 200 m by 115 m, with seven hut circles and three round cairns, and 330 m of reave, on the south-west slope of Nattor Down.
A rubble boundary bank 1,150 m long enclosing a huge stock pound, with thirteen hut circles and a round cairn, on the west slope of Nattor Down and Hamlyn's Newtake.
Two joined enclosures with six hut circles, 2.7 to 4.2 m across, on a north-facing slope above Newleycombe Lake.
Three joined enclosures and ten hut circles on the head of Newleycombe Lake, with a round cairn, a pillow mound and a lode-back tin working.
Prehistoric field boundaries and later settlements on the high moor between Shovel Down and Long Ridge.
Two hut circle settlements and a kerbed cairn 4.9 m across on the east slope of Oke Tor above the Taw: a northern one of two enclosures and four huts, and a southern one of six enclosures and four huts.
A hut circle 6.5 m across inside with a wall 2.7 m wide and a south doorway, on the west edge of a large settlement above the Meavy.
An oval enclosure, 39 m by 29 m, with up to four stone hut circles, and an outlying hut 60 m to the north-west, near the Middle Brook and the Bala Brook.
Blowing House beside the River Meavy. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“I never don't like two faces under one hat.”
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