Other Heritage Sites
Quaker Burial Grounds
A hidden burial ground on Dartmoor where Quaker communities laid their dead, away from parish churchyards.
Dartmoor Heritage
Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
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Cairns & Barrows
Quintin's Man (Cairn)
A Bronze Age cairn standing on the open moor, its stones weathered by millennia of Dartmoor wind and rain.
Cairns & Barrows
Quintin's Man round cairn
Quintin's Man, a round cairn 20.5 m across and 1.9 m high on a prominent ridge of Whitehorse Hill, with a small modern shelter built in its central pit.
Other Heritage Sites
RAF Memorial
Lower Hookner, Moretonhampstead
A solemn memorial to RAF personnel who lost their lives on the high moorland during the Second World War.
Bridges & Crossings
Railway bridge supports
Colebrook Village, Plympton
Sturdy stone supports of a Victorian railway viaduct, silent witnesses to Dartmoor's industrial past among the moorland.
Dartmoor quiz
In what year was the first letterbox placed at Cranmere Pool?
Industrial Archaeology
Ramsay Mine (dis)
Scattered granite ruins of a 19th-century tin mine, now reclaimed by heather and bilberry on open moorland.
Industrial Archaeology
Rattlebrook Mine (Disused)
Remnants of tin mining activity scattered across Dartmoor's open moorland.
Industrial Archaeology
Rattlebrook Peat Works
Ruins of a Victorian peat works above the Rattlebrook, served by a railway built in 1879 that hauled peat nearly 5 miles down to Bridestowe station.
Reaves & Field Systems
Reave over Hingston Hill
A 350 m length of reave over the summit of Hingston Hill, a rubble bank 2 m wide, separating a group of ritual monuments from a large settlement.
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Kestor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“'T is an ancient rite, auld as cider—maybe auld as Scripture, tu, for anything I've heard to the contrary," said Mr. Lezzard. ... "Ay, so 't is," declared Billy Blee, "an' a custom to little observed nowadays. But us might have better blooth in springtime an' braaver apples come autumn if the trees ...”
Also on Our DartmoorEnclosure and hut circles south-east of Eastern Tor — An oval enclosure about 130 m by 65 m of earth and boulder banks with at least eight free-standing hut circles up to 10 m across, below Eastern Tor above the Plym.
