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Prehistoric Settlements

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

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Four hut circles

Four Bronze Age hut circles forming part of an unenclosed settlement south of Leeden Tor.

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Gidleigh Manor Pound

A sturdy stone pound nestled on the open moor, built to contain livestock that strayed across Dartmoor's unfenced landscape.

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Grimspound

Bronze Age settlement of stone circles and hut foundations, mysteriously well-preserved on the open moor.

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Hound Tor Deserted Medieval Vilage

Haunting stone foundations of a medieval farming community, abandoned centuries ago and slowly reclaimed by Dartmoor's moorland.

Hut circle
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Hut circle

Scheduled Monument: Bronze Age or Iron Age hut circle with associated field systems at Bishop's Mead on Dartmoor.

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Hut circle

Remains of a Bronze Age hut circle and boundary wall on Cox Tor's north-east slope, part of an ancient upland settlement.

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Hut circle

A Bronze Age stone hut circle, part of a larger settlement east of Raddick Lane on Dartmoor.