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

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Five hut circles, Crockern Newtake
Prehistoric Settlements

Five hut circles, Crockern Newtake

Five hut circles, 4.9 to 36.3 square metres inside, with field walls of large slabs, in Crockern Newtake above the West Dart.

Prehistoric Settlements

Five hut circles, Watern Oke

Five Bronze Age stone hut circles from an unenclosed settlement on the open moorland of Watern Oke.

Five round barrows on Black Hill
Cairns & Barrows

Five round barrows on Black Hill

A cemetery of five round cairns, 12 to 18 m across, in two groups near the summit of Black Hill, on the northern edge of Haytor Down.

Dartmoor quiz
A photograph of a place on Dartmoor; the question asks which
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

Which Dartmoor stone row is this?

Merrivale stone rows. Three Late Neolithic stone rows on Longash Common by Merrivale Bridge: two parallel double rows 182 m and 264 m long and a 42 m single row, with cairns and cists.

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Other Heritage Sites

Foale's Arrishes

Bronze Age settlement remains scattered across open moorland, where ancient stone circles and hut circles tell stories of Dartmoor's earliest inhabitants.

Former Guildhall, Tavistock
Historic Buildings

Former Guildhall, Tavistock

The former Guildhall and police station in Tavistock, Grade II*, about 1848 by John Foulston and then Theophilus Jones for the Duke of Bedford, built on the site of the abbey's Great Court and incorporating late 15th-century fabric.

Four cairns, Hapstead Ford
Cairns & Barrows

Four cairns, Hapstead Ford

Four cairns of a cairn cemetery on a south slope above the River Mardle: a ring cairn 7.8 m across and three mounds 8 to 9.9 m across, all with early hollows and trenches.

Four cairns, Holne Lee
Cairns & Barrows

Four cairns, Holne Lee

Four cairns on Holne Lee: two ring cairns 4.8 m and 12.5 m across, a 19 m mound 1.3 m high and a 5 m stony mound, all dug into at some early date.

Four cairns, Horn's Cross
Cairns & Barrows

Four cairns, Horn's Cross

Four cairns of a cemetery on Holne Ridge south of Horn's Cross: a 16.5 m by 14 m mound 1.4 m high, a ring cairn 11.9 m across and two smaller cairns.