Hut circles, enclosures, pounds and reaves - where prehistoric Dartmoor lived and farmed.
A small two-roomed drystone house with two annexes and a yard, field walls and a tin openwork at Shavercombe Foot, perhaps Hentor Cot, home of a farm labourer in the early 1800s.
“The rain stopped suddenly, and the wind was hushed, except in the tops of invisible trees; and a streak of black boggy fog settled heavily.”
Which book is this from?
Two enclosures (44 m by 34 m and 35 m by 22 m) with ten hut circles, a robbed round cairn 8.5 m by 7 m and a fallen boundary stone cut BC, on a south-west slope above the Cholwichtown clay works.
Skaigh Warren on the north slope of Cosdon Hill: at least 21 pillow mounds, a warreners' shelter, ridge and furrow, two hut circle settlements and two cairnfields, one of 28 mounds.
An oval enclosure 21 m by 13 m with a very small hut circle, 2.3 m across, built across its north wall, with a 1.3 m round structure attached, on a terrace west of the Cowsic.
A small hut circle only 2.8 m across with a wall 0.6 m wide, on the steep north-west slope of Giant's Hill, probably an outlier of a larger settlement 220 m south-west.
Sixty-seven hut circles and at least twenty fields on a west-facing slope north of Standon Down, with 43 huts dug in 1901.
The Stanlake settlement: 33 hut circles, 15 field plots, a D-shaped enclosure, two medieval longhouses, a medieval strip field and post-medieval fields on a south slope above the Meavy.
At least five incomplete enclosures and a large number of hut circles on the north-east slope of Steeperton Tor above Steeperton Brook.
Bronze Age settlement and post-medieval industry on Chagford Common, with stone hut circles, cairns and tinworks.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 48, 1900“throughout the winter it is quite a different thing ; in the darkness, fog, and often snow, there is not much to admire in the files of spectral convicts marching across the yards into Chapel.”
Also on Our DartmoorPillow mound on the Plym streamworks below Legis Tor — A pillow mound 20 m long and 1.1 m high built on tin streamworks in the Plym valley bottom, in Willings Walls Warren, with a short gully that may have been an animal run.
