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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles near Deadlake Foot

Two small hut circles, 2.5 m and 2 m across, on the edge of the Tavy flood plain at the foot of the Watern Oke slope, the eastern one with a slab-lined doorway facing south-west.

Two hut circles near Foxes Holt
Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles near Foxes Holt

Two stone hut circles up to 8 m across, bisected by a modern field bank, on the lower north-east slopes of Cosdon Hill.

Two hut circles near Ger Tor
Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles near Ger Tor

Two small hut circles, 2.6 m and 2.2 m across inside, on a narrow terrace on a steep west slope above Tavy Cleave, with doorways facing west-south-west and west-north-west.

Dartmoor quiz

What is the earliest known source for the legend of Old Crockern?

Sabine Baring-Gould's Book of the West (1899). The earliest known source for Old Crockern is Sabine Baring-Gould's Book of the West (1899), which introduces him with no further explanation, as though the name needed none.

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Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles near North Hessary Tor

Two hut circles on the southern edge of the North Hessary Tor settlement: a small one 2 m across with a west doorway and a peat-covered one 6.2 m across marked by an arc of nine stones.

Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles near Roos Tor

Two stone hut circles, 4.1 m and 6.2 m across inside, terraced into a slope beside the Great Western Reave.

Two hut circles near Standon Down
Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles near Standon Down

Two hut circles, 2 m and 4.2 m across inside, with south-west doorways, on a north-west slope above Tavy Cleave, with a boundary bank running south-south-west.

Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles on Wigford Down

Two stone hut circles up to 9 m across inside, part of a settlement in a coaxial field system on the lower northern slopes of Wigford Down.

Two hut circles, Gallaven Brook
Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles, Gallaven Brook

Two small hut circles, 3.7 m and 4.2 m across inside, with rubble walls 1.7 m wide, above the North Teign near the confluence of the Gallaven and Walla Brooks.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“There, sir, that's the greatest improvement I ever made on your property. I took in more than half an acre and made the fence straight ;" adding, with half a sigh, " Ah ! we can't do that now ; Duchy 's too strict”

Rev. Treasurer Hawker, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association, vol. 12 (1880), 1880

Also on Our DartmoorBlack Tor, Walkhampton — A granite tor of 376 m above the River Meavy with a rocking logan stone on its top outcrop, Black Tor Falls and an old blowing house below.