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Prehistoric Settlements

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

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Hut circles on Hart Tor
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circles on Hart Tor

Walkhampton, Yelverton

A large unenclosed Bronze Age hut circle settlement on the west-facing slope below Hart Tor, between Devil's Bridge and the tor, above the River Meavy.

Hut circles on Heatree Down
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circles on Heatree Down

A partly enclosed hut settlement on Heatree Down: a round enclosure 58 m across with seven huts, and huts outside it, partly dug in 1968.

Huts and fields on Hayne Down
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Huts and fields on Hayne Down

A small hut circle settlement with at least three huts, up to 1.7 m high, and part of a field system on a slope looking over Hound Tor.

Huts near Broadall Lake
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Huts near Broadall Lake

An enclosed settlement of at least nine hut circles and five enclosures on an east-facing slope above Broadall Lake.

Kes Tor Round Pound
Prehistoric Settlements

Kes Tor Round Pound

A Bronze Age settlement of stone-built roundhouses huddled on the open moor, their circular walls still legible after thousands of years.

Large hut circle, Buttern Hill
Prehistoric Settlements

Large hut circle, Buttern Hill

A hut circle 10.4 m across with a double upright-stone wall up to 1.5 m high, a later drystone wall on its west side and a blocked east entrance, in enclosed land on Buttern Hill.

Prehistoric Settlements

Large hut circle, Higher Shilstone

A hut circle 10.2 m across inside with a single upright-stone wall 1.4 m wide and 1.3 m high, on a west slope of Throwleigh Common above the Forder Brook.

Laughter Tor enclosure and hut circles
Prehistoric Settlements

Laughter Tor enclosure and hut circles

An agglomerated enclosure of at least four irregular parts on the north-west slope of Laughter Tor, with two hut circles about 4.4 m across.