Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
Information on Alan Endacott's research into the Prehistoric Ritual/Ceremonial Landscapes of Northern Dartmoor, including the Sittaford Stone Circle and newly discovered Metheral Circle.
An alluvial tin streamwork at the foot of the River Lyd valley in Lydford Woods, with parallel spoil dumps that show several phases of working, bounded on the north by the Bridestowe and Brentor parish boundary bank.
A stone hut circle 6 m across inside with a west-facing doorway protected by a porch, at the south-west edge of the Arms Tor settlement.
Ashburton
Our aim is to tell the story of our ancient town and its surroundings through a lively collection of artefacts, pictures and displays.
Remnants of tin mining activity on the open moor, where shallow workings scar the granite landscape.
A Grade II* listed barn standing near Yeo Farmhouse, likely medieval or early post-medieval in origin.
A Grade II* listed barn standing north west of Walreddon Manor, a surviving outbuilding from the manor's agricultural past.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Not a lone hill surrounded by bogs is without its great mound of earth or pile of stones over some dead man.”
Also on Our DartmoorHawson Cross — Hawson Cross: a Latin cross 2.18 m high on a triangular road island by Stumpy Oak, with an original head and arms on a mostly modern shaft, restored in 1952 and on the Monks' Path.
