Hut circles, enclosures, pounds and reaves - where prehistoric Dartmoor lived and farmed.
Part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system on Holne Moor: at least 27 parallel reaves, 58 hut circles, a 147.5 m triple stone row, a medieval farmstead, tinworks, two long leats and clapper bridges.
Manaton, Newton Abbot
Remains of a 13th century farming hamlet below Hound Tor near Manaton: four longhouses, smaller houses and barns, excavated from 1961 to 1975.
A hut circle 4 m across inside with a south-facing gap and three lengths of bank leading from it, in Longaford Newtake above the West Dart.
A hut circle up to 7.3 m across with walls repaired up to 2 m high, reused by tinners as a tool store, beside a reave of the Dartmeet field system.
Bronze Age stone hut circle on Conies Down Tor.
A hut circle 5 m across inside, with a wall 1.5 m wide and 0.6 m high, on the edge of an enclosed settlement on the north-west slope of Cawsand Hill.
A stone hut circle with a 6.6 m inner area and a double upright-stone wall, on a south-west-facing slope above Broadall Lake.
Bronze Age hut circle and field system on the open moor east of Ger Tor.
A small hut circle 2.2 m across inside with a slab-lined doorway facing west, on a south slope above the Tavy.
Plate from A Hundred Years on Dartmoor, page 25, 1901“It is not an easy place. Walking in from Okehampton direction, for the first hour it's military roads; for the second hour, degraded moor grass and peat cuttings; and for the third hour, the most Molinia-infested, tussock-barren wasteland I have ever experienced on the moor.”
Also on Our DartmoorPrehistoric enclosed settlement near Hartland Tor — Bronze Age enclosed settlement on the open moor northwest of Hartland Tor, marked by earthwork remains.
