Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
An oval hut circle 5 m by 3.7 m inside with a rubble wall 1.5 m wide and an earthfast rock on its south-west side, above the North Teign.
South Tawton, Okehampton
A medieval wayside cross on the open moor, likely marking a route or boundary in the Oxenham valley.
Which Dartmoor place is in the far distance?
A hilltop enclosure 38.3 m by 33.4 m on a steep promontory above the Lyd in Parsonage Wood, with a bank 6.4 m wide, an outer ditch and no sign of an entrance.
A 170 m stretch of the Penn Moor contour reave from its west end 20 m east of Penn Beacon settlement to a robbed gap, a boulder bank up to 3 m wide.
Chagford
A modest stone memorial marking a crossing point on the open moorland, quietly preserving a local story.
A Bronze Age field boundary that still marks the moorland landscape after four thousand years.
A small oval pillow mound 6.5 m by 4 m beside a tin streamwork between Little Mis Tor and Over Tor, in Merrivale Warren, which has at least 27 mounds.
A small pillow mound 7 m long, 3 m wide and 0.6 m high on a natural island in wet peat on Langstone Moor, with a ditch and an outer bank.
A pillow mound 9.5 m long, 5 m wide and 0.9 m high in Longaford Newtake, an outlying part of the warren set up by James Saltroun of Powder Mills in 1895.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“All around the hills were silent; and the long pale shadows lay, like flaws of calm on tidal waters; while the "holy circles," where unholy deeds had stained the moor, stood up, like ghosts that have no churchyard.”
Also on Our DartmoorLaughter Tor stone rows and standing stone — Two double stone rows on Laughter Tor: one 164 m long with at least 23 stones, a cairn with a 2.65 m standing stone at its north-west end, re-erected in 1893 and 1911, and a 10 m double row.
