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

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Hut circle near Moorlands Farm
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Moorlands Farm

A stone hut circle up to 9.1 m across inside, on the crest of the steep south side of the West Dart valley, with a newtake wall built over it.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near North Hessary Tor

A hut circle 6.3 m across inside, with a wall 1.6 m wide and a slight hollow from early digging, at the north-east edge of the North Hessary Tor settlement.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near North Hessary Tor

A small hut circle 2.3 m across inside with a wall 1.6 m wide and a doorway to the south-south-west, at the south-east edge of the North Hessary Tor settlement, 7 m from the Walkhampton Common reave.

Hut circle near Penn Beacon
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Penn Beacon

A stone hut circle 4.7 m across inside, terraced into a south-east slope above the Ford Brook, with its doorway facing south-south-east.

Dartmoor quiz
“The only convict who really got away from Princetown and was not recaptured was last seen taking a bee-line for Fox Tor Mire.”

Who wrote this?

Sabine Baring-Gould. From A Book of Dartmoor (1900).

Worth a visit
Hut circle near Roos Tor
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Roos Tor

A stone hut circle 6.3 m across inside, with a wall faced in upright stones, beside the Great Western Reave.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Roos Tor

A small oval stone hut circle terraced into a slope above the Walkham, 3.9 m by 2.4 m inside, close to the Great Western Reave.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Roos Tor

A Bronze Age hut circle standing on the open moor east of Roos Tor, among Dartmoor's scattered evidence of prehistoric settlement.

Hut circle near Sharp Tor, Widecombe
Other Heritage Sites

Hut circle near Sharp Tor, Widecombe

A hut circle 12 m across inside, with a wall up to 3.4 m wide, terraced into a slope within the Dartmeet coaxial field system.

Hut circle near Siward's or Nun's Cross
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Siward's or Nun's Cross

A stone hut circle 4 m across inside, with a south-facing doorway, at the edge of a settlement above Newleycombe Lake in an area worked for tin.