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Stone hut circle on Giant's Hill, 500m south west of Plym Steps
Devon
This hut circle sits on Giant's Hill, a short distance south west of Plym Steps in the southern reaches of Dartmoor. The site is a scheduled monument, protected for its archaeological importance. It dates to the Bronze Age, when scattered communities lived and worked on the open moor, leaving behind the stone foundations of their circular dwellings.
Today the hut circle survives as a low earthwork and stone ring, visible to those who know where to look. It stands as one of many such settlements across Dartmoor, evidence of how the landscape was used and inhabited over three thousand years ago. The site sits in open moorland, giving a sense of the environment these ancient people knew, though the moor has changed considerably since their time.
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