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Five barrows on Hamel Down are Bronze Age burial mounds, likely built over a thousand years before the Romans reached Britain. They sit on open moorland, part of a wider pattern of prehistoric activity across Dartmoor where communities marked their dead and their presence on the landscape. The barrows are now low, grassed mounds, weathered by centuries of wind and rain.
Visiting these monuments today, you stand where Bronze Age people once gathered for burial rites. The mounds are modest and scattered across the moorside, but they speak to the long habitation of Dartmoor. They are a Scheduled Monument, protected for their archaeological significance and for what they tell us about how people lived and died here in prehistory.
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