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Enclosed settlement near the Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar on Cox Tor
Grid ref: SX 5285 7598
This scheduled monument is the remains of an enclosed settlement dating to the Bronze Age, situated on the south-western slopes of Cox Tor. The site consists of the earthwork traces of a defended settlement, likely used for domestic occupation and stock management during prehistory. The enclosing bank and ditch are still legible in the landscape, though softened by time and moorland growth.
Visitors walking this part of Dartmoor will find themselves among layered evidence of ancient land use. The settlement sits within a wider pattern of Bronze Age activity on these slopes, part of the concentrated use of Dartmoor's higher ground in prehistory. The moorland context and the views from the site offer a sense of the tactical and pastoral logic that once drew people to build and live here.
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