Settlements

These Bronze Age settlements are scattered across the Dartmoor landscape, their stone-built houses and enclosures preserved by the very bleakness that now surrounds them. The remains reveal how people adapted to life on the high moor over three thousand years ago, building clusters of roundhouses and managing livestock across open moorland that would be recognizable to them today.

Walking among these ruins, you're treading paths used for millennia. The exposed stone circles, field boundaries, and house platforms tell of a thriving community before the climate shifted and drove settlement to lower ground. This is archaeology you can read directly from the moor itself—no interpretation centre needed, just the wind, the heather, and the weight of deep time.