Hut circle near Ger Tor

This scheduled monument consists of a stone hut circle and associated field-plots dating to the Bronze Age. The hut circle is the remains of a prehistoric dwelling, built from stone and positioned to shelter from the prevailing weather. The surrounding field-plots show how the occupants managed the land for cultivation and grazing, a pattern repeated across Dartmoor where Bronze Age communities adapted to the upland landscape.

The site sits on open moorland east of Ger Tor, part of a wider scatter of prehistoric settlements visible across this part of Dartmoor. Visiting means walking through rough grassland and gorse, reading the landscape as Bronze Age people shaped it thousands of years ago. The monuments are subtle but substantial, and the location reveals why this exposed moorland was worth settling.

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Historic England, official listing

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Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks, sites near here The Megalithic Portal, nearest recorded site

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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 188, 1900

“'Way, these here pisgies be a makin' sich a rattle that I want put up wi't no more. I'll zee what they he up to; I can zee mun droo the 'all in the planchin'.”
William Crossing, Tales of the Dartmoor Pixies, 1890

Also on Our DartmoorCairnfield, fields and ring cairn south of Moorgate Farm — At least 29 small cairns, five joined fields, a hut circle, a cairn with a cist and a ring cairn 17.5 m across south of Moorgate Farm below Row Tor, pitted by military training.

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