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Prehistoric Settlements

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

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Two hut circles at the west end of Lee Moor
Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles at the west end of Lee Moor

Two hut circles, 5 m and 4.5 m across, on a west slope at the west end of Lee Moor, with entrances to the west and north-west and a bank joining them.

Two hut circles, north of Rippon Tor
Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles, north of Rippon Tor

Two hut circles, 4 m and 4.9 m across inside, on the north slope of Rippon Tor above the Becka Brook, the northern with a south-south-east gap that may be its doorway.

Amicombe brookAmicombe brook. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“Let it not be supposed that in winter Dartmoor is a desolation and a horror.”

Also on Our DartmoorRailway bridge supports — Sturdy stone supports of a Victorian railway viaduct, silent witnesses to Dartmoor's industrial past among the moorland.