Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
A tor cairn on Hookney Tor: a rubble ring bank 2 m wide against a rock outcrop, enclosing a D-shaped space 12 m by 6 m, with wide views.
A tor cairn on the summit of High Willhays, southern England's highest point: two curved banks against the east face of a rock outcrop, enclosing 13.5 m by 5.5 m.
A Dartmoor fact about Brentor Church (St Michael de Rupe)
A tor cairn on the summit of Shell Top: a mound of small boulders 16.5 m across and 1.4 m high built round the granite outcrop, which rises another 1.4 m.
A tor cairn of rubble bank round Branscombe's Loaf, a granite outcrop 12 m by 4 m and up to 4 m high, enclosing a space 18 m across, on Corn Ridge.
Bridestowe, Okehampton
A modest plaque on open moorland commemorating the crew of HMS Trafalgar, lost at sea in 1901.
Four-volume edition (1997-2000) of the Rev John Swete's illustrated journals of 1789-1800, edited by Todd Gray and Margery Rowe. Borrow or buy only.
A cairn of three concentric rings of edge-set slabs, the inner of at least eight stones up to 1 m high, round a central cist 0.9 m by 0.56 m, overlain by a historic boundary bank, north-west of Arch Tor.
A rabbit warren on the slopes of Great and Little Trowlesworthy Tors, with about 64 pillow mounds and 40 vermin traps, generally accepted as the oldest surviving on Dartmoor.
Trowlesworthy, Shaugh Prior
Early 19th-century farmhouse on Trowlesworthy Warren, also known as the Warren House: a private farm on National Trust land and the opening scene of The Three Brothers.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“When the zun in the East wuz beginning to rise, Jan Pook, half awake, Valled to rubbing his eyes. " Who be I ? Where be I ? " Zed Jan in a maze : " Here's a drunken old zun- Of-a-gun on a shays. If I be Jan Pook, I may zay to my cost A pair of post osses I've sartinly lost. If I baint Jan Pook 'Tez ...”
Also on Our DartmoorWestern cairn of the Homerton Hill cairnfield — The westernmost cairn of the Homerton Hill cairnfield, 5 m across and 0.4 m high, with its stony core exposed on the south.
