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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Ensworthy
Historic Buildings

Ensworthy

A Grade II* listed building on the eastern moor, likely a farmstead or small settlement with roots in medieval or early modern Dartmoor.

Dartmoor quiz

Which spot on Dartmoor has also been known as "the Devil's Dome"?

Amicombe Hill. Amicombe Hill, also known as the Devil's Dome, is a remote and bleak hill in North Dartmoor, forming an elongated ridge between the West Okement River and Rattle Brook.

Worth a visit
Historic Buildings

Erme Pits

Ivybridge

Scattered stone ruins of 19th-century tin and china clay workings on open moorland, revealing Dartmoor's industrial past.

Erme Pound
Prehistoric Settlements

Erme Pound

A Bronze Age livestock enclosure hidden in Dartmoor's open moorland, where ancient stone walls still define the boundaries of a prehistoric settlement.

Websites & Blogs

Exeter Memories

Exeter

Photographs, stories and videos about Exeter: historic buildings and places, famous people, the decades of the twentieth century, genealogy, public art, pubs, streets, theatres and cinemas, a timeline and historic film.

Reaves & Field Systems

Eylesbarrow reave across Ringmoor Down

A 700 m stretch of the Eylesbarrow reave across a spur on the 320 m contour and down the north-east slope of Ringmoor Down and Gutter Tor, a bank 3 m wide with two cairns on its south side.

Eylesbarrow Reave across Ringmoor Down
Reaves & Field Systems

Eylesbarrow Reave across Ringmoor Down

An 800 m stretch of the Eylesbarrow watershed reave across the top of Ringmoor Down, a bank up to 3 m wide and 0.3 m high, with three large cairns beside it and a stone row nearby.

Eylesbarrow Tin Mine
Industrial Archaeology

Eylesbarrow Tin Mine

Abandoned tin mine workings on the high moor, where stone structures and shallow pools mark centuries of industrial heritage.

Fallen Brother Dolmen
Antiquities

Fallen Brother Dolmen

Belstone

Collapsed dolmen near Irishman's Wall above Belstone, found by Alan Endacott and named in tribute to Dartmoor people who died in the world wars.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“New toat, new waist-toat, new breeches; you proud, I proud; I shan't work any more!”

Also on Our DartmoorWhittenknowles Settlement — Bronze Age settlement among Dartmoor's high moorland, where ancient stone foundations still mark the hillside.