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

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Round cairn near Great Links Tor
Cairns & Barrows

Round cairn near Great Links Tor

A round cairn 19 m across and 1.5 m high, with an irregular hollow in its centre, on a south-west slope above the Doe Tor Brook.

Round cairn near Hound Tor
Cairns & Barrows

Round cairn near Hound Tor

A round cairn 8 m across attached to a 130 m by 105 m enclosure; the Dartmoor Exploration Committee dug it in 1902 and found a cist with a charcoal pit.

Cairns & Barrows

Round cairn near Little Hound Tor

A round cairn 7 m across and 0.8 m high on the south-west slope of Little Hound Tor, with an earthfast granite slab forming its west side.

Dartmoor quiz
A photograph of a place on Dartmoor; the question asks which
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

Which Dartmoor place is this?

Nun's Cross Farm. A remote farmstead south of Princetown: first built after an 1870 Duchy lease to John Hooper, rebuilt as the present house in 1901, now a school-run bunkhouse.

Worth a visit
Cairns & Barrows

Round cairn near Little Hound Tor

A round cairn on the summit of Little Hound Tor, 10 m across and 0.9 m high, cut by a trench and carrying a modern pile of stones 2 m across.

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Round cairn near Longstone Hill

A round cairn 13 m across on the lower north-west slope of Yes Tor, the easternmost outlier of the Longstone Hill cairn cluster, with shell hollows from military training.

Round cairn near Norsworthy Bridge
Cairns & Barrows

Round cairn near Norsworthy Bridge

A round cairn 10 m across and up to 1 m high on a west-facing ridge above Burrator Reservoir, inside a post-medieval field in tin-working ground.

Round cairn near Shaugh Cross
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Round cairn near Shaugh Cross

A round cairn, 12 m across and 1 m high, with a kerb on its north side, beside the end of the Shaugh Moor coaxial field system.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“It was already dusk; dark mist wreaths moved upon the Moor, and oncoming night winds sighed of rain.”

Also on Our DartmoorA Dartmoor Country Dance Party — Bob Cann's Pixie Band playing live for dancing at Victory Hall, South Zeal, in 1988, with Bob calling the dances.