Dartmoor Heritage
Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
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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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
Ring cairn near Great Trowlesworthy Tor
A ring cairn on the Lee Moor slope above Spanish Lake: an oval ring of upright stones set in a rubble bank.