Prehistoric Settlements
Five hut circles, Watern Oke
Five Bronze Age stone hut circles from an unenclosed settlement on the open moorland of Watern Oke.
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Cairns & Barrows
Four cairns, Hapstead Ford
Four cairns of a cairn cemetery on a south slope above the River Mardle: a ring cairn 7.8 m across and three mounds 8 to 9.9 m across, all with early hollows and trenches.
Cairns & Barrows
Four cairns, Holne Lee
Four cairns on Holne Lee: two ring cairns 4.8 m and 12.5 m across, a 19 m mound 1.3 m high and a 5 m stony mound, all dug into at some early date.
Prehistoric Settlements
Four hut circles N of Bush Down
Four Bronze Age hut circles north of Bush Down, a scheduled monument on Dartmoor's open moorland.
Cairns & Barrows
Four round barrows, Soussons Down
Four round barrows on Soussons Down, 10 to 20 m across and up to 2.2 m high; two dug in 1902 gave a flint arrowhead, bronze, charcoal, burnt bone, a cist with burnt human bones and a pottery sherd.
Cairns & Barrows
Ring cairn and round cairns on Wigford Down
A ring cairn and four round cairns forming a cemetery on Wigford Down, from 7.8 to 13 m across, partly within a coaxial field system.
Prehistoric Settlements
Roos Tor hut circles and cairnfield
Four hut circles, 3 to 5 m across, a cairnfield of 17 cairns on a terrace and four tinners' trial pits, on the north-west slope of Roos Tor above the Colly Brook.
Prehistoric Settlements
Four hut circles with slab-lined doorways near Leeden Tor
Four stone hut circles, 4.6 to 7.4 m across, all with slab-lined doorways, in an unenclosed settlement on a south-west slope above the Walkham.
Industrial Archaeology
Foxhole Mine and Doetor Brook tinworks
Foxhole Mine (Wheal Frederick) in the upper Doetor Brook: stamping mill, count house with walls 2.9 m high, dressing floor, tramway and clapper bridge, in a long alluvial tin streamwork with openworks, adits and reservoirs.
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“I thought of the convict out upon the bleak, cold, shelterless moor.”
Also on Our DartmoorRingleshutes tinwork — Ringleshutes tinwork on Holne Ridge: a streamwork, prospecting pits, openworks, lode-back pits, shafts, adits, an engine house, a tramway, a dressing floor and a 26.5 m five-roomed building.
