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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Tunhill Farmhouse
Historic Buildings

Tunhill Farmhouse

A Grade II* listed farmhouse on Dartmoor, likely built in the medieval or early modern period and representative of the moor's agricultural heritage.

Two Barrows
Cairns & Barrows

Two Barrows

Bronze Age monument on Dartmoor.

Two cairns at Ausewell Rocks
Cairns & Barrows

Two cairns at Ausewell Rocks

Two Bronze Age cairns on the open moorland at Ausewell Rocks, marking an ancient burial or ceremonial site.

Two cairns on Cator Common
Cairns & Barrows

Two cairns on Cator Common

Two ring cairns on the upper slopes of Cator Common, 12 m and 16 m across, both disturbed by early digging or robbing.

Two cairns with cists on Ter Hill
Cairns & Barrows

Two cairns with cists on Ter Hill

Two round cairns with cists on the slope of Ter Hill above the Swincombe, both dug by Mr Burnard, one yielding a broken beer bottle.

Two hut circles and field, Lints Tor
Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles and field, Lints Tor

Two hut circles about 4 m across and a cleared field 42 m by 24 m with its stone thrown into a heap, on the west slope of Lints Tor.

Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles near Beardown Man

Two Bronze Age hut circles marking the southern edge of a scattered settlement on Conies Down Tor's eastern slopes.

Dartmoor Illustrated, page 64Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 64, 1900

“Please, mem, first there's a jacket, then a gownd, and then comes Oi.”

Also on Our DartmoorRichard Nicholls Worth — Plymouth journalist, geologist and historian (1837-1896), author of histories of Devonport, Plymouth and Devon.