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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Gutter Tor Trig Point
Other Heritage Sites

Gutter Tor Trig Point

Nattor, Plympton

A hilltop memorial and trigonometric point marking a significant vantage point on the open moor.

Hamel Down Cross
Crosses

Hamel Down Cross

A wayside cross, 1.4 m high, near the summit of Hameldown Tor, moved in 1854 to mark the boundary of Natsworthy Manor and cut HC DS 1854.

Hamel Down strip fields
Industrial Archaeology

Hamel Down strip fields

Medieval strip fields on the lower west slope of Hamel Down, with a barn platform 19.5 m long, three small openworks, five small prehistoric settlements (one dug in 1938) and a 13.4 m cairn.

Hameldown Beacon barrow
Cairns & Barrows

Hameldown Beacon barrow

A round cairn 18 m across and 2.2 m high on the summit ridge of Hamel Down, part of a cemetery of at least nine cairns, with a boundary stone cut Hamiton Beacon.

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

Which Dartmoor place is this?

Irishmans Wall. A historic wall built by Irish men around 1820, stretching from Cullever Steps across Belstone Tor.

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Hart Tor North stone rows
Stone Rows & Alignments

Hart Tor North stone rows

Bronze Age stone rows stretching across open moorland, their weathered granite markers still aligned after four thousand years.

Hart Tor North stone rows
Stone Rows & Alignments

Hart Tor North stone rows

Bronze Age stone rows stretching across open moorland, aligned with the distant tors of Dartmoor's granite landscape.