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Prehistoric Settlements

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

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“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.”

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Partly enclosed hut circle settlement, Kennon Hill
Prehistoric Settlements

Partly enclosed hut circle settlement, Kennon Hill

A hut circle settlement on Kennon Hill above the Gallaven Brook: an agglomerated enclosure of at least 13 parts with about 22 huts, five more huts outside and a small oval enclosure on the east edge.