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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Cairns & Barrows

Cairn south-east of Nattor

A cairn 20 m across and 1 m high of small stones and earth, damaged by the farm enclosure, south-west of Nattor Farm, 75 m north-west of the Eylesbarrow reave.

Cairn south-west of Gutter Tor
Cairns & Barrows

Cairn south-west of Gutter Tor

A flat-topped cairn 9 m across and 0.3 m high just west of an enclosure south-west of Gutter Tor, reported to have had a central cist, 80 m south-east of a cist.

Cairn with a cist near Whittenknowles Rocks
Cairns & Barrows

Cairn with a cist near Whittenknowles Rocks

A cairn 6 m across with an off-centre cist 1.7 m long, six kerb stones and the cover stone lying beside it, on a north-west slope north of Whittenknowles Rocks.

Cairn with a cist near Willings Walls Reave
Cairns & Barrows

Cairn with a cist near Willings Walls Reave

A cairn with a cist 1.7 m long, retained by nine kerbstones up to 1 m high, 40 m east of the Willings Walls reave, with the cover stone 2.3 m long displaced.

Cairn with a cist north of Gutter Tor
Cairns & Barrows

Cairn with a cist north of Gutter Tor

A cairn 5 m across with two kerbs and a cist with both side and end slabs but no cover stone, in heavy bracken 250 m north of Gutter Tor.

View from Great Links TorView from Great Links Tor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“In the afternoon, in service time, there happened a very great darkness... a ball of fire came in likewise at the window, and passed through the church... There were in all four persons killed, and sixty-two hurt...”

Also on Our DartmoorKristy Turner — Museum Manager and Curator at the Museum of Dartmoor Life in Okehampton, leading the museum with energy and community focus.