Dartmoor Heritage

Platform cairn on Shaugh Moor

A platform cairn up to 9 m across and 0.3 m high, ringed by a kerb of 11 stones, on Shaugh Moor.

Platform cairn, Shapley Common

A platform cairn on Shapley Common: a circular platform 12 m across and 0.2 m high with a mound 8 m across and 0.8 m high in the middle, on a ridge above Green Combe.

Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway

Princetown

A horse-drawn granite tramway opened in 1823, running about 25 miles from the Foggintor and King's Tor quarries to a wharf near Plymouth. Its upper section was later reused by the steam-worked Princetown Railway from 1883.

Postbridge Cross (Maggie Cross)

Postbridge

The broken head of a medieval wayside cross, known as Maggie Cross, set into a roadside wall at Postbridge.

Potato Cave

Sheepstor, Tavistock

A modest but intriguing stone shelter on Dartmoor, its purpose lost to time but its presence a quiet reminder of human activity on the high moor.

Pound

A pound (a stock enclosure) with hut circles on the open moor north of Down Tor, a scheduled monument.

Pound (Rems)

Monument on Dartmoor.

Pound on Shaugh Moor

A strongly built enclosure on Shaugh Moor with two terraced hut circles, joined to part of the Shaugh Moor coaxial field system.

Powder Mills

Crumbling stone ruins of 19th-century gunpowder mills hidden in a steep wooded valley on Dartmoor's industrial edge.