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Icework at Sourton Tors is a scheduled monument recording evidence of ice-working, a form of surface mineral extraction once practised on Dartmoor. The site sits on the tors themselves, where the working would have exploited natural stone formations and weathered granite. Such activities were common across the moor during medieval and post-medieval periods, leaving shallow pits and scattered debris as traces.
Today the site is marked on the landscape as a archaeological record rather than as obvious earthworks. Sourton Tors themselves command views across open moorland, and the wider area holds multiple layers of Dartmoor's working past. The monument's designation reflects the importance of understanding how communities have used and shaped the moor over centuries.
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