Dartmoor Heritage

Hut Circles

Bronze Age homes preserved on open moorland, where stone circles mark the foundations of ancient Dartmoor lives.

Hut Circles

Bronze Age stone circles and hut foundations scattered across the moor.

Hut Circles

Bronze Age stone foundations scattered across open moorland.

Hut circles and cairnfield, Ruelake Pit

Three hut circles, all with doorways, a cairnfield of at least 14 small cairns and sinuous field walls on a south-west slope above Ruelake Pit.

Hut circles and enclosures on Sharpitor

Walkhampton, Yelverton

Ten scheduled monuments on Sharpitor, above Burrator: a large unenclosed Bronze Age hut circle settlement on the north-east slope, with enclosures, a field system and a reave.

Hut circles and Will May's House

Seven hut circles on an east slope above the North Teign, and Will May's House, a post-medieval shelter with a fireplace, near Hawthorn Clitter.

Hut circles at Tunhill Rocks

Two hut circles in a D-shaped enclosure against Tunhill Rocks, dug in 1896: both had south-facing doorways, and the finds included a decorated cooking pot.

Hut circles near Down Tor

Walkhampton, Yelverton

Five Bronze Age hut circles in three scheduled monuments on the slopes south and south-west of Down Tor, above the Narrator Brook.

Hut circles near Higher Shapley

At least four stone hut circles, up to 1.4 m high, within a field system on a gentle east-facing slope above the North Walla Brook.