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This scheduled monument comprises fifteen stone hut circles arranged within an enclosure built from agglomerate, a locally available volcanic stone. The site dates to the Bronze Age, when such clustered settlements were common across Dartmoor's high moorland. The hut circles, marked by low stone rings, once supported roundhouses where families lived, worked and kept livestock on the open moor.
Today the site sits on exposed moorland between Cawsand Beacon and the wider landscape of central Dartmoor. The stones remain modest and weathered, integral to the moor itself. Visitors find themselves walking among the remains of a prehistoric community, their presence still legible in the careful placement of these Bronze Age foundations.
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Plate from A Hundred Years on Dartmoor, page 35, 1901“Tincombe Lane is all uphill / Or downhill, as you take it; / You tumble up, and crack your crown, / Or tumble down and break it.”
Also on Our DartmoorCairn north-east of the Yellowmead stone circles — A small cairn 4 m across and 0.3 m high, 50 m north-east of the Yellowmead stone circles, with four stones of a kerb on its west and south sides.
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