Hut circles, enclosures, pounds and reaves - where prehistoric Dartmoor lived and farmed.
Twenty-two hut circles, 5 to 11 m across, in two groups with enclosures on the steep east side of the Erme valley, and three tinners' caches from later use.
A Scheduled Monument livestock enclosure northeast of Holwell Tor, likely medieval or early modern in date.
Bronze Age enclosed settlement on the open moor northwest of Hartland Tor, marked by earthwork remains.
Bronze Age settlement of stone-built roundhouses on the open moor south of Hemstone Rocks.
Bronze Age settlements and field systems on Shapley Common.
A ring cairn and a kerbed round cairn within the Wigford Down coaxial field system, above the Plym and Meavy valleys.
A ring of five hut circles, 4 to 8 m across, round an open space 45 m by 27 m inside the Ger Tor enclosure, with buried traces of occupation in the space.
A ring of single stones up to 9 m across and 0.5 m high, a kerbed cairn, within a coaxial field system on Wigford Down.
Two hut circle settlements, nine joined fields and three cairns on the east slope of Rival Tor above the North Teign: six huts all with doorways, and four more in the south; one cairn has a cist.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“The only convict who really got away from Princetown and was not recaptured was last seen taking a bee-line for Fox Tor Mire.”
Also on Our DartmoorRuined buildings (Roses Cottage) — Roses Cottage's skeletal remains stand weathered on open moorland, a poignant reminder of Dartmoor's lost settlements.
