Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
A 700 m reave with a bank 4 m wide and 1 m high, with traces of upright-stone facing and a later ditch, between the Eylesbarrow watershed reave and Roughtor Plantation.
Peter Tavy, Tavistock
Eight scheduled monuments of a Bronze Age round cairn cemetery on White Hill, near the summit and on the slope above Willsworthy: ring cairns and round cairns, some dug by Baring-Gould in 1888.
What quarry was also known as "Royal Oak Quarry"?
A round cairn 18 m across and up to 2.2 m high near the summit of Birch Tor, with a Headland Warren boundary stone cut WB beside it.
A round cairn 7 m across and 0.6 m high on the summit ridge of Cawsand Hill, with a robbed hollow faced with large slabs that may be the cist Falcon described in 1905.
Bronze Age round cairn on open moorland south east of Challacombe Cross, a scheduled monument on Dartmoor.
A big round cairn 24 m across and 1 m high with a quarry ditch and a stone cist 1.4 m by 0.9 m on its north side, on a level plateau north of Conies Down Tor.
A round cairn 10 m across and up to 1 m high with a slight central hollow, on a south-west slope above the Meavy, inside a post-medieval field.
A flat-topped round cairn 5.5 m across with a kerb of large edge-set stones on its south side and a robbed cist, below Leather Tor.
Bronze Age round cairn on the eastern slope of Doe Tor, a scheduled monument on central Dartmoor.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“We saw before us the extensive range of the Dartmoor heights ; the lovely vale of Meavy, Roborough Down, and the waters of the Hamoaze forming the middle distance ; and we actually looked over Mount Edgcumbe and the Cornish hills, and could see the ocean beyond like a sheet of silver, in one broad ...”
Also on Our DartmoorWest Mill Tor — A striking granite tor with a dramatic ruined appearance, visible from miles around and situated near Okehampton Camp.
