Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
Four stone hut circles, 4.6 to 7.4 m across, all with slab-lined doorways, in an unenclosed settlement on a south-west slope above the Walkham.
South Zeal
A 6 ft boundary stone cut SZ 2 and DC 2 (South Zeal and Duchy of Cornwall) at Rabbits' Holt, Cosdon Hill, one of a line put up in 1885 after the 1883 enclosure dispute.
What year was the north arch of Fingle Bridge rebuilt after being damaged?
Grade II* listed walls and gateway at West Week Farmhouse, a vernacular survival of rural Dartmoor building tradition.
Grade II* listed gate piers and boundary wall fronting a small chapel, likely medieval in origin.
The northern edge of a livestock enclosure 600 m by 440 m with a funnelled entrance 50 m across, and seven hut circles at the entrance, four dug in 1893.
South Brent
A re-set cross head with one arm missing, built into the wall at the entrance to Gisperdown Farm near South Brent.
An octagonal-topped granite socket stone, 1.02 m by 1 m, beside the road south of Greenwell Girt; the cross it once held marked a medieval route.
Leetown, Tavistock
Five granite boundary stones marking the western edge of Sampford Spiney, set across the open moorland landscape.
Sheepstor
A recumbent, probably unfinished granite cross lying by the path up Gutter Tor, close to a ruined medieval farmstead.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“This little feeder takes its rise at the foot of Cut Hill, issuing out of a black, swampy, almost uncanny looking place; a hollow filled with bog from which the stream oozes in a slow, lifeless sort of way.”
Also on Our DartmoorTwo hut circles near North Hessary Tor — Two hut circles on the southern edge of the North Hessary Tor settlement: a small one 2 m across with a west doorway and a peat-covered one 6.2 m across marked by an arc of nine stones.
