Our Dartmoor Directory

Medieval strip fields

Scheduled Monument on Hamel Down's western slopes with layers of medieval, tin-working and prehistoric settlement remains.

Cairn near West Vitifer Mine

A Bronze Age cairn on Chagford Common, standing near the remains of West Vitifer tin mine.

Eluvial tin streamworks, Whitchurch Common

Scheduled Monument with evidence of medieval tin mining and Bronze Age field systems on Whitchurch Common.

Two cairns with cists E of Whiteworks tin mine buildings

Two Bronze Age burial cairns with stone burial chambers, situated near the ruins of a 19th-century tin mine on central Dartmoor.

Hut circle, Watern Oke

Bronze Age hut circle within an unenclosed settlement, later adapted by tin miners on the high moor.

Brimpts Mine near Outer Huccaby Ring

Bronze Age settlements and tin mining remains on the high moor, with evidence of ancient field systems.

Blowing house and mill at Gobbet

Remains of a tin-streaming mill and blowing house on the edge of Dartmoor.

Blowing house at junction of Hook Lake

Remains of a medieval or post-medieval tin streaming works where water power processed ore at the confluence of Hook Lake and the River Erme.

Blowing house N of Yealm Steps

Remains of a tin streaming blowing house north of Yealm Steps, a remnant of medieval mining on Dartmoor.