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Enclosure with hut circles south-east of Eastern Tor
Devon
This scheduled monument comprises a cluster of hut circles arranged within an enclosure, evidence of Bronze Age settlement on Dartmoor. The site sits on the open moor south-east of Eastern Tor, in country that has changed little in its essentials for thousands of years. Such settlements reflect a period when the high moor supported farming communities who built small stone-founded houses and managed the land around them.
Visiting the site today, you will find earthwork remains. The hut circles appear as low, roughly circular depressions and banks in the turf and stone. The wider landscape offers context. Walking here, you sense both the exposure of the high moor and the practical logic of the location. The monument is protected because it holds material evidence of how people lived and worked on Dartmoor in prehistory.
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