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A prehistoric and historic archaeological landscape within Merrivale Newtake
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This archaeological landscape on Merrivale Newtake contains evidence of human activity spanning thousands of years. Bronze Age structures, including burial cairns and ritual monuments, share the ground with later medieval and post-medieval remains. The newtake itself, a field enclosed from moorland, reflects centuries of farming and land management across this part of Dartmoor.
Walking here, you move through palimpsest layers of the moor's past. The scheduled monument status protects these fragile records for future study. The wider landscape of central Dartmoor offers context: these monuments are part of a vast heritage terrain that connects individual sites into a coherent story of settlement, loss and adaptation.
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