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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Antiquities

Eighteen cairns

Bronze Age cairnfield on Longstone Hill with eighteen cairns, a linear bank and a recumbent stone.

Heritage & Places

Electric Light Shed (remains)

Meldon, Okehampton

Crumbling stone foundations and weathered walls marking an ambitious attempt to bring electricity to remote Dartmoor.

Antiquities

Eleven hut circles

Bronze Age settlement of eleven stone hut circles, boundary walls and field systems on Sharpitor's north-east slope.

Antiquities

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Bronze Age settlement of hut circle and enclosure north of Old Hill, revealing ancient domestic life on Dartmoor.

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Antiquities

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Bronze Age settlement of hut circles and enclosed fields where the Erme valley meets Blatchford Bottom.

Antiquities

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Bronze Age stone enclosure on open moorland, offering insight into how ancient communities shaped Dartmoor's landscape.

Antiquities

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Bronze Age settlement enclosed by ancient stone walls, revealing how people lived on the high moor thousands of years ago.

Antiquities

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Bronze Age settlement earthworks etched into Dartmoor's high plateau, where ancient communities shaped the landscape millennia ago.

Antiquities

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Bronze Age settlement enclosure on open moorland, where ancient stone walls still define the boundaries of domestic life from thousands of years ago.