Prehistoric Settlements
Enclosures
Bronze Age settlement of hut circles and field enclosures north of Tory Brook Head on Dartmoor.
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Prehistoric Settlements
Hut circle settlement on White Tor's north slope
A hut circle settlement of 28 huts and three enclosures on the north slope of White Tor, crossed by the Great Western Reave.
Prehistoric Settlements
Hut circle enclosures at Petre's Pits Bottom
Two enclosed hut settlements on the Middle Brook valley slope, with later tinners' caches, one still keeping its beehive-shaped corbelled roof.
Stone Circles
Sourton Tors stone circle and cairn alignment
A fallen stone circle 32 m across, a row of 74 small cairns 344.5 m long, a broken cider mill stone and a later ditch, on the saddle between Sourton Tors and Corn Ridge.
Crosses
Cross on Sampford Spiney village green
A tall slender Latin cross, 2.3 m high, set in a boulder on the village green at Sampford Spiney, moved there from a hedge and listed Grade II.
Crosses
Stone cross on Ter Hill
A socket stone on Ter Hill holding a replica cross; the original, repaired in 1885, is now in the High Moorland Visitor Centre at Princetown.
Prehistoric Settlements
Hut circle near Siward's or Nun's Cross
A stone hut circle 4 m across inside, with a south-facing doorway, at the edge of a settlement above Newleycombe Lake in an area worked for tin.
Stone Rows & Alignments
Stone row NW of Saddlesborough
A Bronze Age stone row on the northwestern slopes above Saddlesborough, among Dartmoor's scattered prehistoric monuments.
Cairns & Barrows
Two kerbed cairns near Swincombe
Two kerbed cairns, one with a cist, on the crest of a slope above the Swincombe, both cut by the wall of Joan Ford's newtake.
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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 124, 1900“When below are mud and mist, aloft on the moor the ground is hard with frost and the air crisp and clear.”
Also on Our DartmoorWhittenknowles Settlement — Bronze Age settlement among Dartmoor's high moorland, where ancient stone foundations still mark the hillside.
