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

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Small enclosure and tiny hut circle by the Cowsic
Prehistoric Settlements

Small enclosure and tiny hut circle by the Cowsic

An oval enclosure 21 m by 13 m with a very small hut circle, 2.3 m across, built across its north wall, with a 1.3 m round structure attached, on a terrace west of the Cowsic.

Small outlying hut circle on Giant's Hill
Prehistoric Settlements

Small outlying hut circle on Giant's Hill

A small hut circle only 2.8 m across with a wall 0.6 m wide, on the steep north-west slope of Giant's Hill, probably an outlier of a larger settlement 220 m south-west.

Sourton Tors stone circle and cairn alignment
Stone Circles

Sourton Tors stone circle and cairn alignment

A fallen stone circle 32 m across, a row of 74 small cairns 344.5 m long, a broken cider mill stone and a later ditch, on the saddle between Sourton Tors and Corn Ridge.

Standon Down hut circle settlement
Prehistoric Settlements

Standon Down hut circle settlement

Sixty-seven hut circles and at least twenty fields on a west-facing slope north of Standon Down, with 43 huts dug in 1901.

Statue of Sir Francis Drake
Other Heritage Sites

Statue of Sir Francis Drake

Tavistock

The 1883 Boehm bronze statue of Sir Francis Drake on Plymouth Road, Tavistock, a Grade II listed monument funded by the 9th Duke of Bedford.

View from SheepstorView from Sheepstor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“I never don't like two faces under one hat.”

Also on Our DartmoorLeather Tor enclosure, hut circles and prospecting pits — An enclosure 120 m by 76 m with six hut circles, attached to the Leather Tor reave, with tinners' prospecting pits dug through it, on a gentle east slope above the Meavy.