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Stone hut circle lying south of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill
Devon
This scheduled monument is a stone hut circle, the foundations of a dwelling that once stood on Longstone Hill in the heart of Dartmoor. It sits within a cairnfield, an area scattered with burial cairns and ritual stones, suggesting this was a significant place during the Bronze Age. The hut circle itself marks where someone built a home, sheltering behind stone walls that still survive today as a low circular outline on the ground.
Walking to the site now, you move through the open moorland landscape where these ancient inhabitants lived and died. The cairnfield and hut circle together tell a story of organised Bronze Age communities who farmed, buried their dead, and left their mark on Dartmoor's high ground. It remains a quiet place to stand and consider how people adapted to this landscape thousands of years ago.
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