Roman hill fort

This Iron Age hill fort sits commanding a ridge on Dartmoor, its earthen ramparts still clearly visible after two millennia. The fort would have served as a stronghold and gathering place for the communities scattered across the moor—a place of storage, defence, and tribal identity when this landscape was far from empty.

Walking the perimeter, you can trace the logic of its position: the views across open moorland were total, the approaches limited. The stone-strewn slopes and heather plateau create an atmospheric place to consider what life looked like here centuries before the Romans arrived. The moor around it is largely unchanged.