Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
A circular enclosure 15.2 m across inside a bank up to 7.6 m wide and 1.5 m high, terraced into a steep south-west slope, perhaps the platform of a round house, north of Great Parford.
What feature on Mel Tor is evidence of past stone cutting?
A small cist 0.9 m by 0.9 m with its north-west end and side slabs in place and traces of a kerb but no mound, on a west slope below Roughtor Plantation.
A Civil War redoubt with a square platform 13.9 m across inside two ditches, resembling the Scots Redoubt at Newark, possibly built in 1642 to guard the Cornish side of Okehampton; medieval pottery was found in a 1986 dig.
Stone slabs spanning a moorland stream, a bridge built to last centuries on the open moor.
Middlecott, Chagford
Scattered stone foundations of a moorland farm, abandoned to the wind and weather on high Dartmoor.
Prehistoric settlements and organised field boundaries on the high moor, spanning several centuries of Bronze Age and later use.
Coaxial fields on a single east-west axis either side of the East Dart at Hartland Tor, with a 150 m by 120 m enclosure of three huts and a settlement of four huts and five small enclosures, and ridge and furrow.
Grade II* listed farmhouse on Dartmoor, likely medieval or early modern in origin, with later additions.
Plate from Amid Devonia's Alps, page 151, 1888“Nor can imagination body forth a place more congenial to the sights and sounds of dark and blood-stained rites, than this dreary, narrow, rock-strewn glen of the Dart.”
Also on Our DartmoorGibbet Hill — John Bainbridge's 2023 novel of Dartmoor in 1817, a standalone prequel to his William Quest series, following Jonas Lyddon amid the enclosure of the moor's common land.
