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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Riddipit hull, Raddick Lane
Other Heritage Sites

Riddipit hull, Raddick Lane

Riddipit hull, a potato cave: a tunnel 9.7 m long cut into a river bank with a granite doorway 0.73 m wide and an inward-opening door, part of Riddipit farmstead.

Riddon Ridge field systems
Reaves & Field Systems

Riddon Ridge field systems

Riddon Ridge between the East Dart and Walla Brook: two field systems of about 60 and 32 fields with hut circle settlements, part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system, seven cairns and a medieval coffin stone.

Other Heritage Sites

Rider's Rings

Shipley Bridge, Buckfastleigh

Bronze Age stone circles on open moorland, their purpose still debated after millennia on Dartmoor.

Ring cairn and cist, Soussons Down
Cairns & Barrows

Ring cairn and cist, Soussons Down

A ring cairn 8.6 m across of at least 22 edge-set stones up to 0.85 m high, with a cist in which two coils of human hair were found in 1903, on Soussons Down.

Cairns & Barrows

Ring cairn near Cawsand Beacon

A ring cairn on the summit ridge of Cawsand Hill: a rubble bank 2 m wide round a space 18 m by 17 m, with a central mound holding a stone cist that Rowe described in the early 19th century.

Ring cairn near Cullever Steps
Cairns & Barrows

Ring cairn near Cullever Steps

A Bronze Age ring cairn 9.5 m by 8.5 m, about 240 m south-east of the Cullever Steps stepping stones, below Belstone Tor.

Ring cairn near Devil's Bridge
Cairns & Barrows

Ring cairn near Devil's Bridge

A ring cairn 8 m across inside, a ring of close-set stones up to 0.8 m high on a west-facing slope above the Meavy valley, 220 m south-south-east of Devil's Bridge.