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Main image: Bronze age hut at Grimspound - 6 metres from location - image by Stephen Craven (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
- Period: Bronze Age
- Grid reference: SX 7006 8089 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
Grimspound's hut circles were the subject of Dartmoor's first scientific excavation, undertaken in 1893 by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, whose founding members included Sabine Baring-Gould and Richard Nicholls Worth. Sixteen circles were dug and the results published in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, Vol. 26 (1894), pp.101-121.
The journalist Bertram Fletcher Robinson, who had guided Arthur Conan Doyle around Dartmoor in 1901, wrote his own account of Grimspound, "The Fortress of the First Britons", published in Pearson's Magazine in September 1904.
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