Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
Walkhampton, Yelverton
A cairnfield of 17 mounds, two boundary banks and a lynchet on the south-west slope of Raddick Hill, in five scheduled monuments, above the River Meavy.
A cairnfield of two clusters of four cairns, averaging 0.4 m high, with a field walled by a rubble bank 2 m wide, on a south-east slope above the East Dart.
Peter Tavy, Tavistock
Two Bronze Age cairnfields on White Hill: a western-slope field of about 26 mounds above Lydford and a northern-slope field of at least 22 above the Walla Brook, in six scheduled monuments.
Bridestowe, Okehampton
Ten Bronze Age cairns in eight scheduled monuments on the slopes and the south-facing spur of Great Nodden, two of them ring cairns.
Four cairns inside an enclosure at least 100 m by 96 m on a north-west slope of Homerton Hill above the West Okement: two round, one oval and one ring cairn.
Six cairns in five scheduled monuments on Cox Tor: two tor cairns, two round cairns and two ring cairns of a cairn cemetery, with a summit hut circle.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“It is only when the thick white fog comes down upon the moor that these poor creatures ever dream of freedom.”
Also on Our DartmoorGreat Mis Tor — A massive granite tor with a striking rock basin known as the Devil's Frying Pan, overlooking the River Walkham.
