Nine huts, five post-medieval shelters and a field boundary

This scheduled monument preserves the remains of a Bronze Age settlement on the open moorland south of North Hessary Tor. Nine stone hut circles form the core of the site, their circular foundations still visible in the turf and stone. These round houses once sheltered families who lived and worked on Dartmoor during prehistory, taking advantage of the moorland for grazing and hunting.

Later, in medieval times, five post-medieval shelters were added to the landscape, and a stone field boundary was constructed nearby. These additions show how the site continued to be used and valued long after the Bronze Age settlement was abandoned. Today the site remains largely as fieldwork, with no reconstruction or interpretation, standing quietly among the exposed moorland that has changed remarkably little in thousands of years.

Historic England listed designation: Nine huts, five post-medieval shelters and a field boundary forming part of an unenclosed stone hut circle settlement 1180m south of North Hessary Tor