Prehistoric hut circle settlement near Hemstone Rocks

This scheduled monument preserves the remains of a prehistoric settlement, likely dating to the Bronze Age, when farming communities built substantial stone hut circles across Dartmoor's high ground. The settlement sits in open moorland south of Hemstone Rocks, part of the dense network of such sites that show how intensively the moor was occupied and worked in antiquity.

Visitors today will find the characteristic circular stone foundations of individual dwellings, often marked by low rubble walls and the slight depression of the hut floor. The site offers insight into the lives of early moorland farmers and their landscape choices, and rewards careful walking and observation of the ground itself.