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

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Hut circle near Sourton Tors
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Sourton Tors

Bronze Age settlement with stone hut circle, cairns and field boundaries on the open moor south of Sourton Tors.

Hut circle near Swincombe
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Swincombe

A stone hut circle 8 m across inside, with walls up to 2.7 m wide, on a north-west-facing slope above the Swincombe.

Prehistoric Settlements

Hut Circle near Wedlake Tor

Cudlipptown, Tavistock

Bronze Age stone foundations where Dartmoor families made their homes thousands of years ago.

Dartmoor quiz
“The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm.”

Who wrote this?

Arthur Conan Doyle. From The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902).

Worth a visit
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle on Old Hill

A stone hut circle, 5 m across inside, with walls up to 1.8 m wide, near the junction of the Middle Brook and the Bala Brook.

Hut circle, Down Ridge
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle, Down Ridge

A hut circle 4.8 m across inside with a single upright-stone wall 1.1 m wide and 0.7 m high and an east-facing gap, on Down Ridge above the Dart.

Hut circle, Walla Brook
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle, Walla Brook

A hut circle 4.2 m across inside with a single upright-stone wall 1.3 m wide and 0.8 m high, its floor 0.3 m below the ground, above the Walla Brook.