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

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Stone alignment, Langstone Moor
Stone Rows & Alignments

Stone alignment, Langstone Moor

A single stone row 128 m long with 27 stones, 13 still in place, ending in a cairn, and crossed by the Lichway, on the ridge between Cocks Hill and White Tor.

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

Which Dartmoor place is this?

Merrivale Antiquities. The stone rows, stone circle, standing stone, cairns and hut circles around Merrivale Bridge: Dartmoor's best-known group of Late Neolithic and Bronze Age ritual and settlement remains.

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Stone alignment, Ringmoor Down
Stone Rows & Alignments

Stone alignment, Ringmoor Down

The Ringmoor Down double stone row, 337 m long with 27 stones, ending in a cairn 7 m across with a kerb 12.9 m across that Baring-Gould restored in 1909.

Stone alignments on Sharpitor
Stone Rows & Alignments

Stone alignments on Sharpitor

Walkhampton, Yelverton

Two scheduled stone alignments near Sharpitor: a double row and a single row with a round cairn north-west of the tor, and a short double row between Sharpitor and Leeden Tor.

Stone Circle
Stone Circles

Stone Circle

Bronze Age stones arranged in a circle on open moorland, a window into Dartmoor's ancient past.

Stone Circle
Stone Circles

Stone Circle

Bronze Age stones arranged in a circle on open moorland.

Stone Circle
Stone Circles

Stone Circle

A Bronze Age stone circle standing on open moorland, its weathered stones still marking an ancient gathering place.

Stone cist near Yealm Steps
Cists & Kistvaens

Stone cist near Yealm Steps

A small stone cist, 0.68 m by 0.22 m, with upright slabs up to 0.6 m high, on the eastern edge of a large hut circle settlement above the Yealm.

Stone cross on Ter Hill
Crosses

Stone cross on Ter Hill

A socket stone on Ter Hill holding a replica cross; the original, repaired in 1885, is now in the High Moorland Visitor Centre at Princetown.

Stone Farmhouse
Historic Buildings

Stone Farmhouse

A Grade II* listed farmhouse of medieval or early post-medieval origin, standing on the open moor.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“This shaggy monster, heather-clad, with unctuous black fen rolling ten feet thick over its granite ribs, was his God.”

Also on Our DartmoorGranite — The third volume of Trevena's Dartmoor trilogy, following Furze the Cruel and Heather - published in 1909 and, in his own words, standing for the moor's enduring strength.