Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
A cairn 5.5 m across and 0.5 m high with a kerb of nine or ten stones up to a metre tall and a restored cist, beside the Langcombe Brook near Grim's Grave.
A kerbed cairn with a cist, 8.2 m across, in the Wigford Down coaxial field system, re-examined by Worth in 1900.
A kerbed cairn with a cist on the ridge between the River Yealm and Broadall Lake: nine kerbstones up to 1.1 m high round a cist 1.2 m long.
“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?
A round cairn 4.6 m across and 0.6 m high on Standon Hill with a kerb of stones up to 0.7 m high on the north and east and a single upright stone that may be a second ring.
A Bronze Age settlement of stone-built roundhouses huddled on the open moor, their circular walls still legible after thousands of years.
King's Barrow on King Tor: a round cairn 21 m across and 2.3 m high on the summit, with a pit dug by the Rev. R. Kirwan in 1872 that found nothing, its spoil heaped round the top.
Southcott, Moretonhampstead
A solitary gravestone on open moorland marking the resting place of a young servant whose death remains shrouded in mystery.
Okehampton
Museum Manager and Curator at the Museum of Dartmoor Life in Okehampton, leading the museum with energy and community focus.
