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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Prehistoric Settlements

Whittenknowles Settlement

Bronze Age settlement among Dartmoor's high moorland, where ancient stone foundations still mark the hillside.

Willsworthy Pound near Willsworthy Bridge
Prehistoric Settlements

Willsworthy Pound near Willsworthy Bridge

Willsworthy Pound, traditionally the manor pound: a D-shaped drystone pound 9.5 m by 7.7 m inside with boulder walls up to 1.8 m high, beside the Lich Way near Willsworthy Bridge.

Winney's Down hut circle settlements
Prehistoric Settlements

Winney's Down hut circle settlements

Two settlements on the east slope of Winney's Down: 20 hut circles in three clusters with two enclosures, and three more huts on a terrace 170 m south, with a small cairn.

Dartmoor quiz
“The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm.”

Who wrote this?

Arthur Conan Doyle. From The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902).

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