Dartmoor Heritage
Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
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Dartmoor quiz
“There was nobody to see him; all the brown moor was void with loneliness and lassitude; not a shadow, except his own, moved faster than the sun directed it.”
Who wrote this?
Hillforts & Earthworks
Higher Bury Camp
Iron Age hillfort whose ramparts still command the open moorland above the West Dart River valley.
Crosses
Higher Combe cross
Lustleigh, Moretonhampstead
A medieval wayside cross standing alone in a field east of Higher Combe, marking an ancient route across the moor.
Historic Buildings
Higher Horselake Farmhouse
A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the high moor, likely built in the medieval or early modern period as a working farm.
Historic Buildings
Higher Tor Farmhouse
A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the high moor, built in the medieval or early post-medieval period.
Historic Buildings
Higher Uppacott Uppacott
A Grade I listed farmhouse on the high moor, likely medieval in origin, with the layered building history typical of working Dartmoor farms.
Stone Rows & Alignments
Higher White Tor stone row
A double stone row 95.4 m long on the south slope of Higher White Tor, with 12 stones standing and 24 fallen, the tallest 0.75 m.
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Mount Misery Cross. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Strangers who have never experienced a real Dartmoor mist are apt to imagine that a map and a compass are all that are required to enable one to make one's way across the trackless waste.”
Also on Our DartmoorWatern Oke: hut circle and tinners' building — A hut circle 2.3 m across inside, which the excavators took for a cook-house, and a tinners' building 5.8 m by 3.2 m built on top of an earlier hut, at Watern Oke.
