Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
Sourton Down Cross: a granite slab 2.13 m high with a Romano-Christian inscription, probably 6th century and reused as a wayside cross in the 14th or 15th century, with H, T, O and L letters for Hatherleigh, Tavistock, Okehampton and Launceston, moved in the 1980s.
Powder Mills
A solitary stone chimney rising from Dartmoor's moorland, all that remains of a tin mining operation from centuries past.
An Iron Age hillfort 66.5 m by 62 m with a rampart up to 9 m wide, outer ditch, and a 29 m medieval longhouse built inside it, above the River Lyd in South Longridge Wood.
Norton Fitzwarren, Taunton
Independent charity for Somerset, Devon and the South West, running the Devon Heritage Centre and the Devon archive catalogues, the Somerset Heritage Centre and the Museum of Somerset.
South Zeal
A late medieval granite village cross on a three-step plinth beside St Mary's Chapel in South Zeal, listed Grade II*.
A cairnfield of ten mounds, 3.5 to 7.5 m across, scattered round the edge of a field on a south-facing slope above the Willsworthy Brook.
A 5,000-year-old Neolithic burial chamber hidden in bracken and gorse on the open moor.
Ashburton
Two Grade II listed lodge buildings of the Spitchwick estate: the Higher Lodge, late 19th century, and the Lower Lodges, a pair of about 1800 with additions. Private homes.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 54, 1900“I never don't like two faces under one hat.”
Also on Our DartmoorOkehampton Artillery Range: Experimental Parapets — Scheduled monument of experimental military earthworks on Okehampton Moor, likely 19th-century artillery fortifications.
