Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
A granite boundary stone 1.18 m high, cut HWB3, the third marker of Hentor Warren, named in an 1807 lease, 200 m south-east of Hen Tor.
A Grade I listed farmhouse with surviving stables and garden walls, typical of upland Dartmoor agricultural settlement.
An agglomerated enclosure of two parts with six hut circles and a later shepherd's shelter on the south-east slope of Higher Tor above the Taw.
An oval hilltop enclosure in Brandis Wood, 42.9 m by 40.1 m inside, with a bank 5.1 m wide and 2 m high and an outer ditch up to 5.2 m wide and 1.6 m deep.
“Therefore the little river divides and leaps and tumbles foaming over the mossy granite, or creeps beneath the boulders by invisible ways.”
Who wrote this?
A Grade II* listed cluster of three cottages with roots in the medieval or early modern period, standing on Dartmoor.
The Hound Tor settlements: a prehistoric hut circle settlement and fields, the deserted medieval hamlet of Houndtor with four longhouses, and a second medieval farmstead, abandoned in the mid-14th century.
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Three massive pounds on Huntingdon Warren with up to 24 hut circles, a cairn, a warrener's shelter and up to five pillow mounds.
A hut circle 3.8 m across inside, terraced into a gentle east slope 130 m east of Leeden Tor, with a wall 1.5 m wide.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 218, 1900“God bless 'ee, ma'am. I be 'most too dry to breathe." ... "Reckon you seed me in the bogs just now, trying to find a drop of water?" ... "Not today. The little spring, her'd been getting drier every day, and this morning I found her'd a gone altogether. Tomorrow I must bring more tay.”
Also on Our DartmoorLongstone Manor (Medieval Ruin) — Haunting remains of a medieval manor house scattered across open moorland, revealing centuries of occupation and abandonment.
