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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Antiquities

Pillow mound near Merrivale Bridge

A scheduled monument earthwork on Dartmoor, likely a medieval rabbit warren mound forming part of the Merrivale Warren complex.

Antiquities

Pixies Cross

A waymarked stone cross standing on open moorland, marking ancient routes across Dartmoor's high ground.

Antiquities

Place Wood Hillfort

Iron Age hillfort crowning a ridge above Dartmoor's open moorland, its earthwork ramparts still commanding the landscape after two millennia.

Heritage & Places

Potato Cave

Sheepstor, Tavistock

A modest but intriguing stone shelter on Dartmoor, its purpose lost to time but its presence a quiet reminder of human activity on the high moor.