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Partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement 780m south west of Metherall
Devon
This is a cluster of stone hut circles set within a partially enclosed settlement on Dartmoor's open slopes. The huts themselves are the remains of prehistoric roundhouses, their walls now marked by low stone rubble. The partial enclosure suggests some form of boundary or defence, though such structures served various purposes across the Bronze Age and Iron Age periods when this area was actively farmed and lived in.
Today the site sits among moorland and rough pasture, still quite remote. Walking here puts you in touch with thousands of years of Dartmoor's inhabited past. The ruins are subtle, requiring a careful eye to read, and the setting gives a real sense of how people once occupied these high, exposed slopes year-round.
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