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Prehistoric Settlements

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

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Dartmoor quiz
“He told me incredible tales of the large, glaring-eyed monsters that had stared at him as he lay in the bog.”

Which book is this from?

A Book of Dartmoor. Written by Sabine Baring-Gould in 1900.

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Prehistoric Settlements

Walla Brook hut circle settlement

A hut circle settlement above the Walla Brook with 18 huts and an enclosure 19 m by 15 m, including three complex huts with a hooked porch and a courtyard, north-west of the Warren House Inn.

Watern Oke hut circle settlement
Prehistoric Settlements

Watern Oke hut circle settlement

One of the largest unenclosed hut circle settlements on Dartmoor: dozens of stone huts on a south-facing slope above the River Tavy, dug by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1905.