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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Antiquities

Sanduck Cross

Barnecourt, Moretonhampstead

A wayside cross standing beside a minor road near Sanduck Farm on the northern moor.

Heritage & Places

Saxon Well

Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Ashburton

A modest stone well hidden in the moorland, marking centuries of water-seeking on Dartmoor's high ground.

Heritage & Places

Sea Vixen Crash Site

Chagford

The wreckage of a de Havilland Sea Vixen jet fighter, preserved on the high moor as a poignant reminder of Cold War aviation.

Antiquities

Seven cairns

Seven Bronze Age cairns grouped together on Homerton Hill, part of a wider cairnfield scattered across the moorland.

Heritage & Places

Seven Lords' Lands

Venton, Ashburton

Bronze Age settlement remains scattered across open moorland, where ancient stone foundations hint at lives lived on Dartmoor's high ground.

Heritage & Places

Shaptor View

Brimley, Bovey Tracey

Remnants of a 19th-century granite tramway cutting across Dartmoor's high moorland.

Shaugh Prior village cross
Antiquities

Shaugh Prior village cross

A wayside cross standing at the road junction near Shaugh Prior church, likely medieval in origin.

Antiquities

Sheepstor Cross

A weathered granite cross standing alone on the open moor, marking centuries of Dartmoor's history and serving travellers across the high plateau.