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Hut circles on Heatree Down
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circles on Heatree Down

A partly enclosed hut settlement on Heatree Down: a round enclosure 58 m across with seven huts, and huts outside it, partly dug in 1968.

King's Barrow, King Tor
Cairns & Barrows

King's Barrow, King Tor

King's Barrow on King Tor: a round cairn 21 m across and 2.3 m high on the summit, with a pit dug by the Rev. R. Kirwan in 1872 that found nothing, its spoil heaped round the top.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“Many sweet beauties of tempered clime flower the skirts of the desolate moor, and the sweetest of these is Christowell.”

Also on Our DartmoorPillow mound in the Blacka Brook valley, Trowlesworthy Warren — A pillow mound 29.7 m long and 1.1 m high built on top of tin streamworks in the Blacka Brook valley, in Trowlesworthy Warren, the oldest warren on the moor.