Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
A cairn ringed by edge-set slabs 4.1 m across with a cist 0.82 m by 0.52 m and 0.82 m deep, revealed by excavation, on Skir Hill above the O Brook.
South Tawton, Chagford
A Latin wayside cross 1.9 m high with oval gate-hanging notches and an incised cross on each face, moved to its present place when the A30 was improved in November 1988, near Scarhill Cross.
Ringleshutes tinwork on Holne Ridge: a streamwork, prospecting pits, openworks, lode-back pits, shafts, adits, an engine house, a tramway, a dressing floor and a 26.5 m five-roomed building.
A Bronze Age stone circle on open moorland, with weathered stones still standing after thousands of years on Dartmoor's high ground.
Part of the Rippon Tor coaxial field system, with seven settlements (one of at least 15 huts, one of 13), ten cairns including a 28 m summit cairn 4 m high, millstone roughouts and a roughed-out Latin cross.
Iron Age fort crowning a Dartmoor hilltop, where ramparts still trace the defensive ambitions of ancient communities.
Chichacott, Okehampton
Remains of a Roman trading settlement nestled in the high moorland, where soldiers and merchants once gathered at the edge of empire.
A cross 1.62 m high on a stepped plinth outside the west gate of Sheepstor churchyard, restored in 1919 with new arms after use as a rubbing post; Grade II, also called Roman's Cross.
Four hut circles, 3 to 5 m across, a cairnfield of 17 cairns on a terrace and four tinners' trial pits, on the north-west slope of Roos Tor above the Colly Brook.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“And often have I seen the moor so chequered and broken with light and shade, that it required no stretch of the imagination to convert many a weather-beaten tor into the towers and ruined walls of a feudal castle. Nay, even human forms, gigantic in their dimensions, sometimes seemed to start wildly ...”
Also on Our DartmoorJohn Bainbridge — English author, countryside access campaigner and former CEO of the Dartmoor Preservation Association, with around thirty books on British topography.
