Skip to content

← Back to the directory · Dartmoor Map

Antiquities

Stone hut circle settlement 250m east of Cuckoo Rock

Devon

This scheduled monument comprises a settlement of Bronze Age hut circles, their stone foundations still traceable across the open moorland. The circular stone rings mark where roundhouses once stood, their diameter and arrangement telling of a community that lived and worked on Dartmoor when the landscape was more extensively settled than today. The site sits on moorland characteristic of the high plateaus inland from Cuckoo Rock.

What you find now are the subtle archaeology of daily life on the moor: stone rings and rubble spreads that reward close looking. The settlement sits within the wider pattern of Bronze Age activity across Dartmoor, part of a heritage landscape shaped by centuries of use and abandonment. Walking the moor here, you are treading ground where people built, farmed and lived thousands of years ago.

Explore further

Recommended online resources for heritage sites on Dartmoor:

Photo: Derek Harper (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons

Kind words

Be the first to leave kind words for Stone hut circle settlement 250m east of Cuckoo Rock.

Leave kind words

Run a Dartmoor business, group or service like this one? Add yours to the directory, it is free.

Suggest a listing