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

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Watern Oke: ten hut circles
Prehistoric Settlements

Watern Oke: ten hut circles

Ten huts at Watern Oke, six round, three oval and one two-roomed, dug in 1905 and yielding charcoal, cooking stones, sling and rubbing stones, pottery and flint.

Watern Oke: the northernmost hut
Prehistoric Settlements

Watern Oke: the northernmost hut

The northernmost hut at Watern Oke, a small oval hut of single upright stones, 1.7 m by 1.3 m inside, with an east door and a bench found in the excavation.

Wayside cross near Childe's Tomb
Crosses

Wayside cross near Childe's Tomb

A wayside cross, 1.7 m high, on the western slopes of Ter Hill, thought to mark where the Abbots' Way and the Sandy Way met.

Wayside cross near Cross Gate
Crosses

Wayside cross near Cross Gate

A 14th-century type cross head on a modern 1.8 m octagonal shaft, restored in 1914, 20 m south of the old track between Buckfast and Tavistock abbeys.

Wayside cross on Shaden Moor
Crosses

Wayside cross on Shaden Moor

A medieval wayside cross on Shaden Moor with a restored lower shaft, thought to mark the route from Plympton Priory to Sampford Spiney.

Wayside cross, Down Ridge
Crosses

Wayside cross, Down Ridge

A Latin wayside cross 1.06 m high, concreted into a cleft in a granite rock and broken in two and held with iron bars, on Down Ridge above Holne Moor, locally Horse Ford Cross.

Week Down cross
Crosses

Week Down cross

A 2 m stumpy-armed cross, leaning south-west, on open ground above a minor road with wide views, with a rounded head and the letters IA cut on one face; moved in 1867.

Week Down Cross
Crosses

Week Down Cross

Chagford

A scheduled medieval wayside cross of one piece of granite with very short arms, leaning on Week Down above Chagford.

Well Farmhouse
Historic Buildings

Well Farmhouse

A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the Dartmoor landscape, likely medieval or early modern in origin.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“Nor can imagination body forth a place more congenial to the sights and sounds of dark and blood-stained rites, than this dreary, narrow, rock-strewn glen of the Dart.”

Also on Our DartmoorGutter Tor Cross (unfinished, near the longhouse) — A recumbent, probably unfinished granite cross lying by the path up Gutter Tor, close to a ruined medieval farmstead.