Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
Bowden, Buckfastleigh
Medieval rabbit warren earthworks hidden in Dartmoor's moorland, where artificial burrows once sustained a valued food source.
Three pillow mounds in two scheduled monuments in the Blacka Brook valley below Great Trowlesworthy Tor, two of them among older tin streamworks.
Dartmoor Forest, Tavistock
Thirteen pillow mounds in eight scheduled monuments of Merrivale Warren, on the lower slopes of Over Tor above the River Walkham, with a military training pit.
“He told me incredible tales of the large, glaring-eyed monsters that had stared at him as he lay in the bog.”
Which book is this from?
Chudleigh
A limestone cave in Chudleigh Rock near Chudleigh, a Scheduled Monument since 1992, where 1970s excavations found a rare Late Upper Palaeolithic "living floor" of flint tools and animal bones beneath a stalagmite crust.
A waymarked stone cross standing on open moorland, marking ancient routes across Dartmoor's high ground.
Bronze Age cairn and burial cist on the open moor south-east of Calveslake Tor.
A platform cairn 16.5 m across and 1 m high on the summit ridge of Cawsand Hill, with a kerb of leaning upright stones and a second kerb inside it.
A platform cairn 13.9 m across and 1.1 m high near Fordsland Ledge, with a stone-lined pit in the middle and a partly buried kerb.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“It struck me as something new in farming, and I was going to ask him what there was in it that he paid a labourer to hoe his stubbles.”
Also on Our DartmoorBala Brook — A southern moor brook running down off the high ground near the Avon, past old tramway and mining remains, to join the River Avon in the wooded country above South Brent.
