Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
Bronze Age settlement of stone hut circles with cairns and field boundaries, north east of Hemstone Rocks.
Bronze Age stone hut circles on Lee Moor's western edge.
Bronze Age stone hut circles on open moorland.
Old books sometimes spell "Fice's Well" differently. Which of these is one of those spellings?
Bronze Age stone hut circles on the open moor northwest of Little Links Tor.
Bronze Age stone hut circle settlement on Tom's Hill, now a scheduled monument with scattered stone foundations across open moorland.
Bronze Age stone hut settlement on Harford Moor, with remains of multiple roundhouses scattered across unenclosed moorland.
Okehampton
Where US Navy Liberator 32014 hit the Steeperton Tor ridge in cloud on 3 December 1943 on a training flight, killing all ten crew. The RAF cleared the wreck over nine days.
Okehampton
Where US Navy Liberator 63926 hit the ridge above the West Okement valley in cloud on 28 December 1943, killing all ten crew. Debris runs from the ridge top down towards the river.
Sourton, Okehampton
A stone on Corn Ridge, set up in May 2022 and flown in by Royal Navy helicopters, remembering the ten crew of a US Navy Liberator lost on 28 December 1943.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 228, 1900“All around the hills were silent; and the long pale shadows lay, like flaws of calm on tidal waters; while the "holy circles," where unholy deeds had stained the moor, stood up, like ghosts that have no churchyard.”
Also on Our DartmoorA Book of the West, Vol. 1: Devon — The Devon companion to A Book of Dartmoor: town and moor and coast, history and character, from Exeter to the wild north.
