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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Wayside Stone, SX 742 887
Milestones & Boundary Markers

Wayside Stone, SX 742 887

Cranbrook, Moretonhampstead

A modest stone marker standing beside an old moorland route, marking the way for travellers crossing Dartmoor.

Cairns & Barrows

Western cairn with a cist, Langcombe Brook

A cairn 5 m across and 0.3 m high with a kerb on its north side and a rectangular cist 0.8 m by 0.7 m, whose missing side slab and cover stone Worth noted nearby in 1890.

Cairns & Barrows

Westernmost of four cairns

An oval cairn, 4.5 m by 3 m, the westernmost of four cairns in a cairnfield of 26 mounds above Lydford village.

Dartmoor quiz

What year was the north arch of Fingle Bridge rebuilt after being damaged?

1809. The north arch was damaged and rebuilt in 1809. This date is confirmed in the text as the year of reconstruction.

Worth a visit
White Tor enclosed hut circle settlement
Prehistoric Settlements

White Tor enclosed hut circle settlement

An enclosure 106 m by 72 m with a double-orthostat wall 3 m wide and seven hut circles, three of them dug in 1899, on a south-west slope above the Colly Brook.