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

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Hut circle settlement, Horn's Cross
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle settlement, Horn's Cross

A hut circle settlement and a cairn on Holne Ridge above the O Brook: an agglomerated enclosure of two parts and three huts, cut by two tinners' leats.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle settlement, O Brook

A hut circle settlement above the O Brook: at least three enclosures and 18 huts, with a fine 0.7 m entrance flanked by slabs up to 0.75 m high, a cairn over a hut and prospecting pits.

Dartmoor quiz

What is the earliest known source for the legend of Old Crockern?

Sabine Baring-Gould's Book of the West (1899). The earliest known source for Old Crockern is Sabine Baring-Gould's Book of the West (1899), which introduces him with no further explanation, as though the name needed none.

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Prehistoric Settlements

Hut Circle W of Shovel Down

Teignworthy, Chagford

Bronze Age dwelling preserved on open moorland, where stone foundations still mark an ancient Dartmoor home.

Hut circle west of High-house Waste
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle west of High-house Waste

A hut circle 9 m across inside with a wall 1 m thick and 0.6 m high and a probable south-east entrance, west of High-house Waste.