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These two stone hut circles sit on the open moorland a kilometre north of Standon Down, evidence of Bronze Age occupation on Dartmoor. The circular stone foundations mark the footprints of roundhouses, their walls now low but still traceable on the ground. Like many such sites scattered across the moor, they speak to a time when these high, exposed slopes were home to pastoral communities who built substantial structures to shelter livestock and families.
The site lies in the heart of Dartmoor's archaeological landscape, where hut circles cluster in valleys and on slopes where water and grazing were accessible. Walking here, you move through layers of moorland history, and the remains underfoot are a quiet reminder of the people who knew this ground long before the modern paths were marked.
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