Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
A Grade II* listed cottage and garage on Dartmoor, representative of rural building traditions across the moorland landscape.
Ivybridge
Where Short Stirling R9329 of 149 Squadron came down in Gibhill Wood near Cornwood in the early hours of 21 August 1942, lost on the way home from laying mines off Bordeaux. All seven crew died. A granite memorial stands in the wood.
Scheduled Monument combining Bronze Age stone alignment, cairn and settlement with later medieval structures on open moorland.
“The peat glowed as though it were red-hot, and night brooded on the eastern face of every hill.”
Who wrote this?
Bronze Age stone alignment and cairn on the open moor east of Stannon Brook, a scheduled monument.
A Bronze Age stone row on the northwestern slopes above Saddlesborough, among Dartmoor's scattered prehistoric monuments.
A round cairn 15.8 m across on the summit of White Ridge in Great Stannon Newtake, in a prominent position with views over much of Dartmoor, with three pits in its mound.
Manaton
A mutilated medieval cross head built into the roadside wall of Swallerton Gate cottage, below Hound Tor.
Crumbling stone foundations of a medieval tin-smelting works, hidden among Dartmoor's high moorland.
Bronze Age cairnfield on Homerton Hill with ten stone cairns and a length of bank, a scheduled monument on open moorland.
