Stone Circles
Sherberton stone circle
An incomplete stone circle 29.6 m across on a ridge between the West Dart and Swincombe valleys, with nine stones standing.
Dartmoor Heritage
Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
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Other Heritage Sites
Shillamill Viaduct
Walreddon, Tavistock
A striking stone viaduct spanning a moorland valley, built to carry the railway across Dartmoor's rugged terrain.
Crosses
Shorter Cross
A coffin-shaped cross without arms, 1.7 m high, with a relief cross on one face and an incised cross on the other, moved in 1873 and re-set in 1900; possibly a Christianised standing stone.
Industrial Archaeology
Shuttamoor Mine
Scattered stone foundations and collapsed workings mark this tin mine deep on Dartmoor's open moorland.
Industrial Archaeology
Shuttamoor Mine and Shafts
Abandoned tin mine shafts dotting the open moorland, remnants of Dartmoor's industrial heyday.
Stone Circles
Sittaford Tor stone circle
Stone circle about 300 metres south-west of Sittaford Tor, found by Alan Endacott in 2007 and dated by radiocarbon to the end of the third millennium BC.
Crosses
Siward's or Nun's Cross
Dartmoor's largest wayside cross, 2.07 m tall, called Siward's Cross in the 1240 bounds and Nun's Cross by 1699, at a meeting of old moorland tracks.
Prehistoric Settlements
Six hut circles, Routrundle
Six large hut circles, 23 to 88 square metres inside, arranged in an oval round a central space on a west slope above the Walkham, south-west of Routrundle.
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