Enclosure near Lower Hartor Tor

This scheduled monument is an enclosure of prehistoric date, likely Bronze Age or Iron Age in origin, situated on the moorland south of Lower Hartor Tor. The site survives as earthwork banks and ditches that define an enclosed space, evidence of settlement or stock management on Dartmoor when the landscape was more actively farmed and grazed than it is today.

Visitors walking the moor in this area will find the earthworks as subtle but tangible traces of human occupation stretching back two or three thousand years. The enclosure sits within the broader pattern of ancient settlement that characterises Dartmoor's interior, offering a sense of continuity with the people who shaped this landscape long before the modern commons took their present form.