Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
Belstone
Oval stone circle on Taw Marsh below Metheral Hill, near Belstone. Alan Endacott found it during his PhD fieldwork and it was announced in November 2024. About 20 stones survive, most of them fallen.
A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the high moor, representative of the modest stone buildings that sustained Dartmoor's farming communities.
“Dartmoor soaked up this illumination like a sponge, and did not waken at its tepid touch.”
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Grade II* listed farmhouse on the eastern edge of Dartmoor, a substantial stone building with deep roots in the moor's agricultural past.
Pridhamsleigh, Ashburton
A roadside milestone marking distances on the old turnpike route near Gage's Mill, likely dating from the 18th or 19th century.
A late 18th-century granite milestone, 1.2 m high, cut From Tavistock 7 miles, Okehampton 8 and Truro 57, beside a road that once marked an important route.
Remnants of tin and copper extraction scarring the high moor, where Victorian enterprise left its mark on the granite landscape.
Remnants of tin and copper extraction scattered across the moorland.
A granite milestone marking the moorland routes that once connected Dartmoor's scattered settlements and farms.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“And you who read this doleful tale On days wet, hot, or cool, If you must wander on the moor, Don't go to Cranmere Pool.”
Also on Our DartmoorHameldown Beacon barrow — A round cairn 18 m across and 2.2 m high on the summit ridge of Hamel Down, part of a cemetery of at least nine cairns, with a boundary stone cut Hamiton Beacon.
