Dartmoor Heritage

Warrens

Buckfastleigh

Scattered stone ruins of a medieval warren settlement, half-buried in Dartmoor's rough moorland vegetation.

Warrens

Buckfastleigh

Scattered stone foundations on open moorland reveal where rabbits were once farmed on an industrial scale.

Warrens (Pillow Mounds)

Buckfastleigh

Medieval rabbit warrens earthworks rippling across the open moor, a forgotten landscape of deliberate abundance.

Watchet Hill Cottage

Belstone, Okehampton

Ruined cottage on open moorland, a poignant trace of the families who once eked out life on Dartmoor's high ground.

Watching Place Cross

A short-armed medieval cross, 1.44 m high, at the junction of the B3212 and the B3344, moved here in 1899 after serving as a gatepost; HE notes it may be a Christianised standing stone.

Watern Oke: double hut circle

A double hut circle at Watern Oke of two rooms, 6.5 m by 4.5 m and 4.2 m across, with a boulder doorpost; the 1905 dig found hearths in both rooms.

Watern Oke: hut circle

A hut circle 4 m across inside, with a wall 1.5 m wide and 0.6 m high, terraced into a gentle south slope at Watern Oke.

Watern Oke: sixty hut circles

Sixty hut circles, three cooking hearths and a stone-roofed cache at Watern Oke, one of the largest unenclosed settlements on Dartmoor, dug in 1905.

Watern Oke: small hut circle

A small hut circle 3.2 m across inside, with a wall 1.1 m wide and 0.4 m high, at Watern Oke; the exploration committee did not dig or survey it.