Stone Rows & Alignments
Down Tor Stone Row
Bronze Age stone row stretching across open moorland, aligned with the rhythm of ancient ritual and celestial cycles.
Dartmoor Heritage
Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
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Other Heritage Sites
Dr Blackall's Drive
Ashburton
A carriage drive of about two miles cut round the hillside above the Dart by Dr Thomas Blackall of Spitchwick, running from Newbridge Hill past Aish Tor and Mel Tor to Bel Tor Corner.
Historic Buildings
Drascombe Barton
A Grade II* listed farmstead on the edge of Dartmoor, with 16th-century origins and the solid character of moorland vernacular building.
Other Heritage Sites
Drizzlecombe Bronze Age Complex
Nattor, Ivybridge
A scattered Bronze Age landscape of stone circles, cairns and burial mounds spread across open moorland, testament to 4,000 years of Dartmoor's deepest past.
Other Heritage Sites
Drizzlecombe East Row
Nattor, Ivybridge
Bronze Age stone row stretching across the open moorland, its weathered granite markers still aligned after four thousand years.
Other Heritage Sites
Drizzlecombe North Row
Nattor, Ivybridge
Bronze Age stone row stretching across open moorland, with weathered granite slabs aligned to ancient rhythms.
Other Heritage Sites
Drizzlecombe South Row
Nattor, Ivybridge
A Bronze Age burial row of standing stones emerging from the open moorland, weathered by millennia of Dartmoor wind and rain.
Industrial Archaeology
Druid Mine Engine House
Ruined engine house from Dartmoor's tin-mining past, standing solitary on the open moor.
Holy Wells & Springs
Druids Well
Middlecott, Chagford
A historic water well on Dartmoor, likely medieval or earlier in origin, serving communities on the high moor.
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Plate from Guide to Dartmoor, page 313, 1909“I solemnly swear to you, sir," said he, "nothing will ever induce me to set foot on Dartmoor again. If I chance to see it from the Hoe, sir, I'll avert my eyes. How can people think to come here for pleasure — for pleasure, sir! But there, Chinamen eat birds'-nests. There are depraved appetites ...”
Also on Our DartmoorGoldsmith's Cross — Goldsmith's Cross: a repaired Latin cross, 0.9 m high, set in a boulder beside Foxtor Mires and re-erected in 1903.
