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Prehistoric Settlements

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

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Coaxial fields
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Coaxial fields

Bronze Age field systems on Shapley Common, part of a coaxial pattern of ancient agricultural divisions across the moor.

Coaxial fields near Hartland Tor
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Coaxial fields near Hartland Tor

Prehistoric field systems and settlement traces on the high moor north of Hartland Tor, showing how Bronze Age communities organised their landscape.

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Coaxial fields near Stannon Tor

Bronze Age settlement with field systems, cairns and stone alignment in Little Stannon Newtake on southern Dartmoor.

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Double hut circle, Watern Oke

Bronze Age stone hut circle settlement on the open moor, with a distinctive pair of roundhouse foundations.

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Dunnabridge Pound

A medieval livestock enclosure on open moorland, where Dartmoor farmers once penned straying animals.

Eight hut circles
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Eight hut circles

Bronze Age settlement of ten stone structures on the open moor south of Leeden Tor, revealing patterns of ancient Dartmoor life.

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Eight hut circles

Bronze Age stone hut circles and a shieling in an unenclosed settlement on Dartmoor's open moorland.

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Eleven hut circles

Bronze Age settlement of eleven stone hut circles, boundary walls and field systems on Sharpitor's north-east slope.