Prehistoric Settlements
Enclosed hut circle settlement near Rough Tor
Bronze Age settlement of stone hut circles and a cairn on the high moorland north east of Rough Tor.
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Prehistoric Settlements
White Tor west enclosure, hut circles and kerbed boulder
An enclosure 80 m by 52 m joining granite outcrops, with nine small hut circles and a kerbed boulder 4 m across, on the west slope of White Tor.
Prehistoric Settlements
Enclosed hut circle settlement, Giant's Hill
Bronze Age settlement of stone hut circles and cairns on the slopes of Giant's Hill, a scheduled monument on Dartmoor.
Prehistoric Settlements
Enclosed hut circle settlement near Conies Down Tor
Bronze Age stone hut circle settlement nestled on Conies Down Tor's south-east slope, a cluster of ancient dwellings preserved on open moorland.
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Prehistoric Settlements
Gutter Tor south-west enclosed hut settlement
A small enclosure about 30 m by 20 m with five hut circles, 2 to 10.5 m across, on a south-facing slope south-west of Gutter Tor.
Prehistoric Settlements
Enclosure near Standon Down
A sub-oval enclosure 29 m by 21 m with a rubble wall up to 2.5 m wide, half buried in peat, above Tavy Cleave, with a possible buried hut in its south-east corner.
Prehistoric Settlements
Square enclosure near Meacombe
An almost square enclosure, 20 m by 20 m, terraced into a south-west-facing slope near Meacombe.
Prehistoric Settlements
Penn Beacon enclosure and clay works leat
An enclosure 55 m by 24 m on the south-west edge of a settlement of at least thirteen huts, cut by a leat to the Whitehill Yeo clay works.
Prehistoric Settlements
Two oval enclosures on Dockwell Ridge
Two oval enclosures, 50 m by 47 m and 36 m by 30 m, with strong earth and stone banks, on the lower north-east slopes of Dockwell Ridge.
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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 232, 1900“The Gubbings land is a Scythia within England, and they be pure heathens therein... Their wealth consists in other men's goods, and they live by stealing the sheep on the More...”
Also on Our DartmoorRound cairn on Watern Tor — A flat-topped oval cairn 5.5 m by 5 m between the Thirlstone and Watern Tor, with a large granite slab on its north-east edge.
