Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
A post-medieval open-ended rectangular building 11.5 m by 3.5 m inside, walled with upright stones up to 1.2 m high, terraced into the slope just east of Hentor Farm.
“Dartmoor soaked up this illumination like a sponge, and did not waken at its tepid touch.”
Who wrote this?
A Bronze Age stone row stretching across open moorland, its weathered granite sentinels still aligned as they were 4,000 years ago.
A spring north of Princetown under a stone canopy with a lintel cut I.F. 1568, linked to John Fitz and the same pixie-mist story told at Okehampton.
Belstone, Okehampton
A stone-roofed holy well and a small granite cross beside it on East Hill above the West Okement, both listed Grade II.
Drewsteignton, Exeter
A narrow early 17th century granite bridge over the River Teign in the Teign Gorge, below Castle Drogo, once the main road between Drewsteignton and Moretonhampstead. Grade II* listed.
Belstone, Okehampton
A spring and small granite cross on Okehampton Park, tied to a legend of pixie-led walkers who drank here and saw the mist lift. Not Fice's Well.
Five cairns of a cemetery of at least nine on Hamel Down, four with boundary stones, one dug in 1872 to reveal a dagger with an amber-studded pommel.
Five hut circles in a line and a 5 m cairn on an east slope above the North Teign, south-west of Rippator.
Sunset from Lints Tor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“All around the hills were silent; and the long pale shadows lay, like flaws of calm on tidal waters; while the "holy circles," where unholy deeds had stained the moor, stood up, like ghosts that have no churchyard.”
Also on Our DartmoorStalldown Cairn Circle — Bronze Age stone circle on open moorland, its weathered stones still marking ancient ritual ground after four millennia.
