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Prehistoric Settlements

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

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Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle on Old Hill

A stone hut circle, 5 m across inside, with walls up to 1.8 m wide, near the junction of the Middle Brook and the Bala Brook.

Hut circle, Down Ridge
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle, Down Ridge

A hut circle 4.8 m across inside with a single upright-stone wall 1.1 m wide and 0.7 m high and an east-facing gap, on Down Ridge above the Dart.

Hut circle, Walla Brook
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle, Walla Brook

A hut circle 4.2 m across inside with a single upright-stone wall 1.3 m wide and 0.8 m high, its floor 0.3 m below the ground, above the Walla Brook.

Hut Circles
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut Circles

Bronze Age homes preserved on open moorland, where stone circles mark the foundations of ancient Dartmoor lives.

Hut Circles
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut Circles

Bronze Age stone circles and hut foundations scattered across the moor.

Dartmoor quiz
“Swelling and sinking solemnly along the sky, Dartmoor surrounded Newtake.”

Who wrote this?

Eden Phillpotts. From Children of the Mist (1899).

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Prehistoric Settlements

Hut Circles

Bronze Age stone foundations scattered across open moorland.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circles and cairnfield, Ruelake Pit

Three hut circles, all with doorways, a cairnfield of at least 14 small cairns and sinuous field walls on a south-west slope above Ruelake Pit.

Hut circles and enclosures on Sharpitor
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circles and enclosures on Sharpitor

Walkhampton, Yelverton

Ten scheduled monuments on Sharpitor, above Burrator: a large unenclosed Bronze Age hut circle settlement on the north-east slope, with enclosures, a field system and a reave.

Hut circles and Will May's House
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circles and Will May's House

Seven hut circles on an east slope above the North Teign, and Will May's House, a post-medieval shelter with a fireplace, near Hawthorn Clitter.