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This stone hut circle sits on Longash Common, part of the scattered evidence of Bronze Age occupation across Dartmoor's high ground. The roughly circular foundation of stone suggests a dwelling from the later prehistoric period, when communities grazed stock and farmed the moor's open slopes. The site is modest but speaks to patterns of settlement visible across the landscape.
The location, east of Merrivale Bridge, places it within one of Dartmoor's richest archaeological zones. Visitors walking the common will find the remains as a low circular arrangement of stones, best understood as part of the wider story of how people once used this moorland. The monument is protected and left as found, a quiet remnant of the moor's deep past.
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