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Dartmoor Heritage

Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.

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Medieval strip fields
Antiquities

Medieval strip fields

Scheduled Monument on Hamel Down's western slopes with layers of medieval, tin-working and prehistoric settlement remains.

Meldon viaduct
Antiquities

Meldon viaduct

A Victorian railway viaduct crossing the moorland landscape near Okehampton, built to carry the railway into Dartmoor.

Merrivale Standing Stone
Antiquities

Merrivale Standing Stone

A solitary granite monolith standing on open moorland, weathered by centuries of Dartmoor wind and rain.

Antiquities

Merrivale Stone Circle

Bronze Age stone circle on open moorland, its weathered granite sentinels still marking an ancient gathering place after four millennia.

Merrivale Stone Row (East)
Antiquities

Merrivale Stone Row (East)

Bronze Age stones marching across open moorland, their purpose still tangled in Dartmoor's deep past.

Antiquities

Merrivale Stone Row (West)

Bronze Age standing stones arranged in a long row across open moorland, weathered by thousands of years of Dartmoor wind and rain.

Heritage & Places

Mesolithic Complex (Flooded)

Coombe Cross, Bovey Tracey

Submerged traces of hunter-gatherers on Dartmoor, where Mesolithic people once lived before water claimed the landscape.