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

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Blackaton Ball tin mill
Industrial Archaeology

Blackaton Ball tin mill

A largely buried tin mill with a rectangular building, wheel pit, leat and dressing floor near the source of the West Webburn, recorded before 1556.

Blackaton Cross
Crosses

Blackaton Cross

A restored wayside cross also called Roman's Cross, 1.79 m high on a circular socket stone, beside the old road between Lee Moor House and Cadover Bridge; the shaft was probably a window sill.

Bleak House (Ruin)
Historic Buildings

Bleak House (Ruin)

A stone ruin on Dartmoor, this long abandoned house stands as a haunting reminder of industrial life on the moor.

Industrial Archaeology

Blowing House

Ruined tin smelting works tucked into Dartmoor's moorland, where 18th-century industry shaped the landscape.

Blowing house at Dry Lake
Industrial Archaeology

Blowing house at Dry Lake

A small drystone tin mill, 5.5 m by 3.8 m inside, terraced into the north bank of Dry Lake near the Erme.

Blowing house at Hook Lake
Industrial Archaeology

Blowing house at Hook Lake

A small drystone tin mill, 6.3 m by 3.8 m inside, just north of where Hook Lake joins the Erme, probably a blowing mill.

Blowing house near Yealm Steps
Industrial Archaeology

Blowing house near Yealm Steps

A blowing mill, 8.8 m by 3.1 m inside, on the west bank of the Yealm at the foot of Penn Moor, with its furnace recess and two mould stones.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“The wind was blowing the rain in our faces, but we stepped out endeavouring to treat it as a light matter, though it certainly required some amount of self deception to do it, for we were having a taste of real Dartmoor weather.”

Also on Our DartmoorKennon Hill boundary stone with a cross — A tall granite boundary stone on Kennon Hill with a cross cut on one face and a G on another, marking the Gidleigh and Throwleigh parish boundary.