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Prehistoric Settlements

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

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Hut circle near Roos Tor
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Roos Tor

A stone hut circle 6.3 m across inside, with a wall faced in upright stones, beside the Great Western Reave.

Hut circle near Sharp Tor, Widecombe
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Hut circle near Sharp Tor, Widecombe

A hut circle 12 m across inside, with a wall up to 3.4 m wide, terraced into a slope within the Dartmeet coaxial field system.

Hut circle near Siward's or Nun's Cross
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Siward's or Nun's Cross

A stone hut circle 4 m across inside, with a south-facing doorway, at the edge of a settlement above Newleycombe Lake in an area worked for tin.

Hut circle near Sourton Tors
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Sourton Tors

Bronze Age settlement with stone hut circle, cairns and field boundaries on the open moor south of Sourton Tors.

Hut circle near Swincombe
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Swincombe

A stone hut circle 8 m across inside, with walls up to 2.7 m wide, on a north-west-facing slope above the Swincombe.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut Circle near Wedlake Tor

Cudlipptown, Tavistock

Bronze Age stone foundations where Dartmoor families made their homes thousands of years ago.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“Ten thousand years hence it will be a great peat bog.”

Also on Our DartmoorSettlement remains around Trowlesworthy Warren House — Five scheduled monuments east of Trowlesworthy Warren House: two hut circle settlements, an enclosure, a cairn with a cist and a V-shaped gully.