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Hilltop enclosure known as Maristow Camp, 240m east of Middle Park House

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Maristow Camp is a scheduled monument consisting of a hilltop enclosure situated on open Dartmoor east of Middle Park House. The site likely dates to the Iron Age or Bronze Age, when such fortified settlements served as gathering places, refuges, or territorial markers across the moor. The earthwork remains visible as a raised boundary defining the enclosure, testament to the long occupation and use of Dartmoor's higher ground.

Today the site sits within the moorland landscape much as it has for two thousand years or more. A visit offers insight into how ancient communities chose and shaped these exposed places, and rewards walkers exploring the quieter eastern reaches of Dartmoor with a tangible link to the moor's deep past.

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Photo: Jon Coupland (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons

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