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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Medieval farmstead near Cold East Cross
Crosses

Medieval farmstead near Cold East Cross

A medieval farmstead of at least four buildings above the Ashburn, with a longhouse 15 m by 4.6 m built along the contour, south-east of Cold East Cross.

Medieval longhouse, Peek Hill
Prehistoric Settlements

Medieval longhouse, Peek Hill

A medieval longhouse 13 m by 4 m inside with a 9 m annex and a drainage ditch, and an outbuilding 66 m north-east of it, on Peek Hill above Burrator Reservoir.

Meldon viaduct
Other Heritage Sites

Meldon viaduct

A 165 m wrought iron trestle viaduct of 1874 over the West Okement, with piers up to 37 m high, reopened in 2002 as part of the Granite Way.

Merrivale Antiquities
Other Heritage Sites

Merrivale Antiquities

Dartmoor Forest, Tavistock

The stone rows, stone circle, standing stone, cairns and hut circles around Merrivale Bridge: Dartmoor's best-known group of Late Neolithic and Bronze Age ritual and settlement remains.

Merrivale Standing Stone
Standing Stones & Menhirs

Merrivale Standing Stone

A 3.2 m granite standing stone on Longash Common, the tallest of the Merrivale monuments, with a small cairn, a fallen stone and a short line of stones beside it.

Merrivale Stone Circle
Stone Circles

Merrivale Stone Circle

A ring of 11 low stones, 18.5 m across, on Longash Common: the stone circle beside Merrivale's stone rows.

Merrivale stone rows
Stone Rows & Alignments

Merrivale stone rows

Three Late Neolithic stone rows on Longash Common by Merrivale Bridge: two parallel double rows 182 m and 264 m long and a 42 m single row, with cairns and cists.

Mesolithic Complex (Flooded)
Other Heritage Sites

Mesolithic Complex (Flooded)

Coombe Cross, Bovey Tracey

Submerged traces of hunter-gatherers on Dartmoor, where Mesolithic people once lived before water claimed the landscape.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“'Way, these here pisgies be a makin' sich a rattle that I want put up wi't no more. I'll zee what they he up to; I can zee mun droo the 'all in the planchin'.”

Also on Our DartmoorCramber Tor — A short granite outcrop with a lonely feel, situated on the side of a hill near Devonport Leat.