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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Prehistoric Settlements

Langcombe Brook settlement, ring cairns and tin mill

A settlement of three enclosures, three ring cairns with two cists and six round cairns, with a tin mill and streamworks of the post-medieval tinners, beside the Langcombe Brook and the Plym.

Laughter Tor fields and hut circles, south-east
Prehistoric Settlements

Laughter Tor fields and hut circles, south-east

At least five hut circles within an irregular field system of at least 11 fields on the south-east slope of Laughter Tor, with medieval banks and a later drystone wall across it.

Laughter Tor stone rows and standing stone
Stone Rows & Alignments

Laughter Tor stone rows and standing stone

Two double stone rows on Laughter Tor: one 164 m long with at least 23 stones, a cairn with a 2.65 m standing stone at its north-west end, re-erected in 1893 and 1911, and a 10 m double row.

Dartmoor Illustrated, page 188Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 188, 1900

“'I bant coming acrass the moor awl be myzel tü-night. I be aveāred ov the Jackie-twoads. I zeed scores aw'm when I went acrass Dartymoor last autumn.'”

Also on Our DartmoorPillow Mounds (Warrens) — Medieval rabbit warren earthworks hidden in Dartmoor's moorland, where artificial burrows once sustained a valued food source.