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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle beside the Dartmeet reave

A hut circle up to 7.3 m across with walls repaired up to 2 m high, reused by tinners as a tool store, beside a reave of the Dartmeet field system.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Cawsand Beacon

A hut circle 5 m across inside, with a wall 1.5 m wide and 0.6 m high, on the edge of an enclosed settlement on the north-west slope of Cawsand Hill.

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A Dartmoor fact about Avon Dam Reservoir

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The Avon Dam Reservoir was built between 1954 and 1957, soon after the national park was designated, to supply the towns of the South Hams.

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Other Heritage Sites

Hut circle near Dendles Wood

A stone hut circle with a 6.6 m inner area and a double upright-stone wall, on a south-west-facing slope above Broadall Lake.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Ger Tor

A small hut circle 2.2 m across inside with a slab-lined doorway facing west, on a south slope above the Tavy.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Ger Tor

Bronze Age hut circle and field system on the open moor east of Ger Tor.

Hut circle near Hartland Tor
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Hartland Tor

A stone hut circle with a double wall, 8.5 m across inside, on the south-facing slope of Hartland Tor above the East Dart.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Leather Tor

A large hut circle 10.7 m across inside, with a wall 1.5 m wide and 0.7 m high, attached to a field boundary on the east slope of Leather Tor.

A Book of Dartmoor, page 167Plate from A Book of Dartmoor, page 167, 1900

“'T is an ancient rite, auld as cider—maybe auld as Scripture, tu, for anything I've heard to the contrary," said Mr. Lezzard. ... "Ay, so 't is," declared Billy Blee, "an' a custom to little observed nowadays. But us might have better blooth in springtime an' braaver apples come autumn if the trees ...”

Also on Our DartmoorTwo hut circles and Kestor field system at Frenchbeer Rock — Two hut circles with south-facing doorways, 8.5 m and 6.4 m across, and part of the Kestor coaxial field system, on a spur above the South Teign at Frenchbeer Rock.