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Prehistoric stone hut circle settlement, a contemporary field system, post-medieval buildings and two lengths of leat 310m south east of Yealm Steps

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This scheduled monument preserves evidence of Bronze Age life on Dartmoor, with stone hut circles clustered in the landscape alongside the field systems that once served the community. The settlement sits within a palimpsest of use, with post-medieval buildings and two lengths of leat water channel added in later centuries, showing how this corner of the moor continued to be worked and inhabited across millennia.

Located south east of Yealm Steps, the site offers walkers a tangible sense of prehistoric occupation and the enduring pull of this landscape. The remains are characteristic of Dartmoor's Bronze Age heritage, where such settlements reveal patterns of settlement and land use that shaped the high moorland we see today.

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