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

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Watern Oke: hut circle and tinners' building
Prehistoric Settlements

Watern Oke: hut circle and tinners' building

A hut circle 2.3 m across inside, which the excavators took for a cook-house, and a tinners' building 5.8 m by 3.2 m built on top of an earlier hut, at Watern Oke.

White Tor enclosed hut circle settlement
Prehistoric Settlements

White Tor enclosed hut circle settlement

An enclosure 106 m by 72 m with a double-orthostat wall 3 m wide and seven hut circles, three of them dug in 1899, on a south-west slope above the Colly Brook.

Prehistoric Settlements

Whittenknowles Settlement

Bronze Age settlement among Dartmoor's high moorland, where ancient stone foundations still mark the hillside.

Willsworthy Pound near Willsworthy Bridge
Prehistoric Settlements

Willsworthy Pound near Willsworthy Bridge

Willsworthy Pound, traditionally the manor pound: a D-shaped drystone pound 9.5 m by 7.7 m inside with boulder walls up to 1.8 m high, beside the Lich Way near Willsworthy Bridge.

Winney's Down hut circle settlements
Prehistoric Settlements

Winney's Down hut circle settlements

Two settlements on the east slope of Winney's Down: 20 hut circles in three clusters with two enclosures, and three more huts on a terrace 170 m south, with a small cairn.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“Nor can imagination body forth a place more congenial to the sights and sounds of dark and blood-stained rites, than this dreary, narrow, rock-strewn glen of the Dart.”

Also on Our DartmoorLong cairn near White Tor — A long cairn 36 m by 12 m and up to 0.6 m high on a south-east slope east of White Tor, stony at both ends with a kerb on the south side.