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Prehistoric Settlements

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

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Settlement

Bronze Age settlement ruins scattered across the open moor, revealing how people lived on Dartmoor thousands of years ago.

Antiquities

Settlement

Bronze Age settlement remains scattered across the open moorland, revealing how ancient communities lived on Dartmoor's high ground.

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Settlement on Wigford Down

Bronze Age or Iron Age settlement remains on Wigford Down, marked by earthwork traces and stone foundations.

Settlement SE of Two Bridges
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Settlement SE of Two Bridges

Prehistoric settlement remains on the high moor southeast of Two Bridges, marked by scattered stone structures and earthworks.

Settlement W of Holwell Tor
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Settlement W of Holwell Tor

Bronze Age settlement remains west of Holwell Tor, among Dartmoor's extensive prehistoric archaeology.

Antiquities

Settlements

Bronze Age settlements nestled into Dartmoor's high moorland, where stone foundations still mark where families built their lives.