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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Huts and fields on Hayne Down
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Huts and fields on Hayne Down

A small hut circle settlement with at least three huts, up to 1.7 m high, and part of a field system on a slope looking over Hound Tor.

Huts near Broadall Lake
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Huts near Broadall Lake

An enclosed settlement of at least nine hut circles and five enclosures on an east-facing slope above Broadall Lake.

Ice works (disused)
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Ice works (disused)

Sourton, Okehampton

Remnants of a Victorian ice-making operation hidden in Dartmoor's moorland, a curious industrial relic from an era of mechanical ingenuity.

Icework at Sourton Tors
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Icework at Sourton Tors

Scheduled monument marking the site of ice-working activity on Sourton Tors, likely medieval or later in date.

Inscribed stones in vicarage garden
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Inscribed stones in vicarage garden

Three early Christian memorial stones of the 5th and 6th centuries in the vicarage garden at Tavistock, known as the Nepranus, Sabine and Nabarr stones.

Irishman's Wall Circle
Stone Circles

Irishman's Wall Circle

Belstone

Remains of a cairn circle near Irishman's Wall above Belstone, picked up by Alan Endacott's geophysical survey. Six stones are visible and more are indicated below ground.

Jellyfish Art Gallery
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Jellyfish Art Gallery

Buckfastleigh

Contemporary art gallery nestled on Dartmoor, showcasing local and regional artists against the moor's wild backdrop.

Widgery Cross from the edge of Doe TorWidgery Cross from the edge of Doe Tor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“When the zun in the East wuz beginning to rise, Jan Pook, half awake, Valled to rubbing his eyes. " Who be I ? Where be I ? " Zed Jan in a maze : " Here's a drunken old zun- Of-a-gun on a shays. If I be Jan Pook, I may zay to my cost A pair of post osses I've sartinly lost. If I baint Jan Pook 'Tez ...”

Also on Our DartmoorLittle Sharpitor — A small separate granite outcrop of 395 m about 100 m below Sharpitor near Burrator, on land bought by the Dartmoor Preservation Association in 1984.