Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
A sub-rectangular enclosure 80 m by 50 m with three hut circles, 5 to 10 m across, faced both sides with slabs, just south of the Gutter Tor outcrops.
“Dwellers in the hilly parts of Devon, on Dartmoor and Exmoor, and in the villages bordering upon them, are as deeply imbued with faith in witches, as their forefathers were in the days when Alfred was king.”
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A small enclosure about 30 m by 20 m with five hut circles, 2 to 10.5 m across, on a south-facing slope south-west of Gutter Tor.
Six hut circles, 7.5 to 10.5 m across, terraced into a south-facing slope 500 m south-west of Gutter Tor, with south-facing entrances, one with its jambs.
Newton Abbot
Where Hampden X3054 of 49 Squadron hit the north-east slope of Hameldown on the night of 21 March 1941, returning from a raid on Lorient. All four crew died. A granite boulder memorial marks the spot.
An unenclosed settlement of eight stone hut circles, 6.2 to 7.5 m across, with an oval enclosure and boundary banks, on the western slopes of Harford Moor.
A Headland Warren boundary stone cut Warren Bounds, a granite pillar 0.37 m high set in a bank by the road, one of at least 16 round the 246 ha warren.
Two of the 16 Headland Warren boundary stones north of Birch Tor, 0.7 m and 0.9 m high, cut WB, marking a warren of about 246 ha with 37 pillow mounds, in use from 1754 to about 1920.
A partly enclosed settlement on both sides of the Hentor Brook: an enclosure 55 m by 40 m with three huts, then four more huts, and an isolated hut downstream, below Hen Tor.
A granite boundary stone 1.02 m high, cut HWB2, the second marker of Hentor Warren, named in an 1807 lease, on Lee Moor above Spanish Lake.
