Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
Sheepstor, Tavistock
Crumbling stone foundations of a Victorian engineering ambition on the open moor, where a suspension bridge once crossed the moorland landscape.
The original site of Watching Place Cross, with an 18th-century granite waymarker lettered C, M and T for Chagford, Moreton and Tavistock.
A block of 17 small fields with nine hut circles and three enclosures, one of them 500 m by 300 m, on the ridge between Bellever Tor and Lakehead Hill, with a small cairn.
An Iron Age defended settlement on the summit of Berra Tor: an oval enclosure with a rampart up to 17 m wide and 1.7 m high.
Lustleigh, Bovey Tracey
A wayside cross stone built into a garden wall near Caseley, likely medieval in origin.
The deserted medieval settlement at Blackaton: at least eleven buildings (six longhouses), a manor first recorded in 1229 with 13th-century pottery, owned by the Pipards and later the Southcotts, with a chapel recorded in the 18th century.
Lower Bowdley, Ashburton
A modest stone marker standing northwest of Cold East Crossroads, marking an old boundary line across Dartmoor.
Lee Moor, Plympton
A weathered boundary stone standing on the open moor north west of Blackaton Cross, marking medieval or early modern land divisions.
Peter Tavy, Tavistock
A stone boundary marker on the open moor, marking historic land divisions across Dartmoor's upland landscape.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“They would always time their departure from Princetown so as to clear the pixie-haunted moor before dark, and from the upper windows of the prison one might watch them winding the distant mule tracks sinuously like torpid snakes.”
Also on Our DartmoorCairn on northern Harford Moor — A Bronze Age cairn on the open moorland of northern Harford Moor, a stone monument of uncertain purpose from prehistory.
