Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.
A grass and bilberry covered cairn 5 m across and 0.5 m high with a slight hollow on its south side, east of Scout Hut and north of Eastern Tor.
A cairn 5.5 m across containing a stone-lined cist 1.2 m long, 150 m north of Vixen Tor, at the edge of a coaxial field system.
What is the height of Beardown Man above ground?
A round cairn up to 27.5 m across and 2.5 m high on the summit of Corndon Tor, built round part of the rock outcrop and searched in the 1820s.
A Bronze Age cairn on the open moorland of northern Harford Moor, a stone monument of uncertain purpose from prehistory.
A turf-covered cairn 6 m across and 0.5 m high with a central hollow, on a small scarp above the Plym at Mill Corner, 200 m from the enclosures on Giant's Hill.
A small cairn 4 m across with a stone cist 1.18 m long, dug in 1914 when charcoal was found, above the Sheepstor leat north-east of Drizzlecombe.
Bronze Age burial monument with a stone burial chamber, situated south of Langcombe Brook on Dartmoor.
A cairn 5 m across with a low kerb of at least eight stones and a cist 1 m by 0.7 m with its four slabs in place, 400 m south-east of Shavercombe Tor.
A cairn 4 m across with a partly excavated cist 1.05 m long, its end stone removed and cover stone lying north-north-east of the mound, in the Homerton Hill cairnfield.
Plate from The Ancient Stone Crosses of Dartmoor and its Borderland, page 171, 1902“throughout the winter it is quite a different thing ; in the darkness, fog, and often snow, there is not much to admire in the files of spectral convicts marching across the yards into Chapel.”
Also on Our DartmoorSheepstor Cross — A weathered granite cross standing alone on the open moor, marking centuries of Dartmoor's history and serving travellers across the high plateau.
