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Enclosure and unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 510m north of Deadlake Foot
Devon
This scheduled monument comprises the remains of a prehistoric settlement lying on open moorland north of Deadlake Foot. The site includes both enclosed and unenclosed stone hut circles, suggesting occupation and use across different periods. The hut circles represent domestic structures from the Bronze Age or Iron Age, when farming communities built permanent or semi-permanent homes on Dartmoor's higher ground.
Today the site appears as low stone rings and foundations scattered across the moor, legible to those who know what to look for. It forms part of the wider pattern of prehistoric settlement that shaped Dartmoor's landscape, evidence of how people lived and worked on the moorland over two thousand years ago. The location offers a sense of the open, exposed terrain these communities inhabited and the durability of their stone-built homes.
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