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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Walkhampton Common reave and Leeden Tor stone row
Reaves & Field Systems

Walkhampton Common reave and Leeden Tor stone row

Two reaves on Walkhampton Common: 2 km of the straight central stretch of the Walkhampton Common reave and a 302 m cross reave, with two huts, a cairn and a 132 m stone row of 16 stones.

Prehistoric Settlements

Walla Brook hut circle settlement

A hut circle settlement above the Walla Brook with 18 huts and an enclosure 19 m by 15 m, including three complex huts with a hooked porch and a courtyard, north-west of the Warren House Inn.

Watern Oke hut circle settlement
Prehistoric Settlements

Watern Oke hut circle settlement

One of the largest unenclosed hut circle settlements on Dartmoor: dozens of stone huts on a south-facing slope above the River Tavy, dug by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1905.

Watern Oke: hut circle and tinners' building
Prehistoric Settlements

Watern Oke: hut circle and tinners' building

A hut circle 2.3 m across inside, which the excavators took for a cook-house, and a tinners' building 5.8 m by 3.2 m built on top of an earlier hut, at Watern Oke.