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Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.

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Enclosure and two hut circles on Eastern Tor
Prehistoric Settlements

Enclosure and two hut circles on Eastern Tor

An irregular enclosure of about 0.3 hectare on the south-east slope of Eastern Tor with two free-standing hut circles, each 8 m across with double-faced walls.

Prehistoric Settlements

Enclosure north-west of Gutter Tor

A small sub-rectangular enclosure 11 m by 10 m with a bank 1 m wide and a 3 m pen against its west wall, on the north slope of Gutter Tor beside the Eylesbarrow reave.

Dartmoor quiz
A photograph of a place on Dartmoor; the question asks which
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

Which Dartmoor place is this?

Merrivale Antiquities. The stone rows, stone circle, standing stone, cairns and hut circles around Merrivale Bridge: Dartmoor's best-known group of Late Neolithic and Bronze Age ritual and settlement remains.

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Enclosure with one hut circle near Cross Gate
Prehistoric Settlements

Enclosure with one hut circle near Cross Gate

An irregular enclosure 47 m by 35 m divided into three, with one hut circle 5 m across whose doorway faces south-west, on a south slope above Burrator Reservoir.

Reaves & Field Systems

Eylesbarrow Reave by Brisworthy Plantation

A 300 m stretch of the Eylesbarrow watershed reave running north-east from Brisworthy Plantation up the west slope of Ringmoor Down, up to 2 m wide and 0.4 m high, cut at a cairn.

Scorhill stone circle in the snowScorhill stone circle in the snow. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“Let him now give his pony his head, and he will pick his own way, in such a path, much better than the rider could do it for him with the bridle. My little shaggy Dobb carries me up this hill as quietly as a lamb; I let the rein hang loose on my arm, and, whilst he paces gently on, amuse myself ...”

Also on Our DartmoorRippon Tor — A striking tor on eastern Dartmoor with three large cairns and a triangulation pillar overlooking the northern high moors.