Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
A hut circle 10.4 m across with a double upright-stone wall up to 1.5 m high, a later drystone wall on its west side and a blocked east entrance, in enclosed land on Buttern Hill.
A hut circle 10.2 m across inside with a single upright-stone wall 1.4 m wide and 1.3 m high, on a west slope of Throwleigh Common above the Forder Brook.
An incomplete ring cairn 19.5 m across inside a rubble bank 2 m wide, with an oval mound 9.7 m by 7.2 m in the middle and two tin prospecting pits cut into its west side, on Holne Moor.
“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?
A ring cairn 22 m across and 0.9 m high on Holne Ridge, with an outer bank on three sides that makes it 30.4 m across overall.
A big round cairn 29 m across and 2 m high just below the summit of Yes Tor, opened by an undocumented dig that left a hollow 7 m by 6 m and a trench 14 m long, with a small shelter 4 m to its south.
A large cairn on the summit of Eylesbarrow, 25 m across and up to 2 m high, built on an earth and stone platform; visitors have moved its stones.
An agglomerated enclosure of at least four irregular parts on the north-west slope of Laughter Tor, with two hut circles about 4.4 m across.
A medieval cross head and short shaft, 1.02 m high, carved with a relief cross on two faces, found elsewhere on the farm and set up at the Moor Gate Farm entrance in 1937; Grade II.
Sheepstor, Tavistock
A modest stone bridge crossing moorland water, testament to centuries of travel across Dartmoor's remote terrain.
Pony at Merrivale Stone Rows. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Dartmoor is not dying but it is changing, and we should all be concerned about the increasing and significant pressures on this precious landscape, communities, and heritage.”
Also on Our DartmoorSouthcott Down — A granite hill with a distinctive shape, located near the edge of the moor.
