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This hut circle, located 270 metres southwest of Meacombe, is one of many such structures scattered across Dartmoor's uplands. Dating to the Bronze Age, it represents a period when the moor supported settled communities who built stone-founded roundhouses, leaving these low rings of rubble as evidence of their occupation.
Today the site is humble and requires patience to read. A visitor will find a slight circular depression in the heather and moorland, marked by stones. It sits within the wider archaeological landscape of Dartmoor, part of a network of ancient settlements, cairns and field systems that shaped the moor's character over thousands of years.
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