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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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The Ten Commandments (Carved stone)
Other Heritage Sites

The Ten Commandments (Carved stone)

Buckland in the Moor, Ashburton

A weathered granite stone carved with biblical text, standing solitary on the open moor as a testament to Dartmoor's spiritual history.

The Tolmen Stone
Other Heritage Sites

The Tolmen Stone

A mysterious stone with a natural hole, believed to hold ancient spiritual significance on the open Dartmoor plateau.

Three Boys
Standing Stones & Menhirs

Three Boys

Teignworthy, Chagford

Bronze Age burial cairns on open moorland, their weathered stones still marking the landscape after thousands of years.

Three hut circles on Vogwell Down
Prehistoric Settlements

Three hut circles on Vogwell Down

Three hut circles in a line at the north end of Vogwell Down, the northern one on a levelled platform with two massive standing stones.

Three hut circles on Wigford Down
Prehistoric Settlements

Three hut circles on Wigford Down

An unenclosed settlement of three stone hut circles, 4.5 to 7 m across inside, on the eastern edge of Wigford Down, outside its coaxial field system.

Prehistoric Settlements

Three hut circles, Hen Tor

Three hut circles, 4 m, 3 m and 2.8 m across inside, two joined, on the north-west slope of Hen Tor, with a lined, partly blocked doorway.

Three hut circles, Hookney Tor
Prehistoric Settlements

Three hut circles, Hookney Tor

Three hut circles, 6.4 m, 8 m and 6.4 m across, and a 2 m wide upright-stone wall between the two southern ones, on a south-west slope of Hookney Tor.

Three hut circles, Manga Rock
Prehistoric Settlements

Three hut circles, Manga Rock

Three hut circles, 8.5 to 19.6 square metres inside, with walls up to 0.7 m high and boundary walls, on an east slope above the North Teign, south-east of Manga Rock.

Three pillow mounds, Longaford Tor
Other Heritage Sites

Three pillow mounds, Longaford Tor

Three revetted pillow mounds, 12.2 m, 8.9 m and 10.6 m long, near the summit of Longaford Tor, an outlying part of the Longaford and Littaford warren.