Historic Buildings
Great Houndtor Farmhouse
A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the high moor, likely medieval in origin.
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Historic Buildings
Higher Tor Farmhouse
A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the high moor, built in the medieval or early post-medieval period.
Cairns & Barrows
Hameldown Beacon barrow
A round cairn 18 m across and 2.2 m high on the summit ridge of Hamel Down, part of a cemetery of at least nine cairns, with a boundary stone cut Hamiton Beacon.
Dartmoor quiz
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography
Which Dartmoor stone circle is this?
Milestones & Boundary Markers
Hentor Warren boundary stone HWB3
A granite boundary stone 1.18 m high, cut HWB3, the third marker of Hentor Warren, named in an 1807 lease, 200 m south-east of Hen Tor.
Milestones & Boundary Markers
Hentor Warren boundary stone HWB2
A granite boundary stone 1.02 m high, cut HWB2, the second marker of Hentor Warren, named in an 1807 lease, on Lee Moor above Spanish Lake.
Prehistoric Settlements
Maristow Camp
Maristow Camp, an Iron Age hilltop enclosure 96 m by 73 m with a rampart 8 to 10 m wide and an outer ditch, on a ridge west of Roborough Down, later landscaped as parkland.
Prehistoric Settlements
Shavercombe Foot house, fields and tin openwork
A small two-roomed drystone house with two annexes and a yard, field walls and a tin openwork at Shavercombe Foot, perhaps Hentor Cot, home of a farm labourer in the early 1800s.
Hillforts & Earthworks
Hunter's Tor camp
A small hillfort with three concentric ramparts, 116 m by 70 m inside, on a hill on the north side of the Bovey valley.
Other Heritage Sites
Hut circle near Sharp Tor, Widecombe
A hut circle 12 m across inside, with a wall up to 3.4 m wide, terraced into a slope within the Dartmeet coaxial field system.
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