Wayside cross on Shaden Moor
A medieval wayside cross on Shaden Moor with a restored lower shaft, thought to mark the route from Plympton Priory to Sampford Spiney.
A medieval wayside cross on Shaden Moor with a restored lower shaft, thought to mark the route from Plympton Priory to Sampford Spiney.
Prehistoric settlement with three round cairns south of Horn's Cross.
Old books sometimes spell "Fice's Well" differently. Which of these is one of those spellings?
A ritual complex near the summit of Lakehead Hill: five cairns, two stone rows and three cists, one dug in 1898 and found to hold flint knives, scrapers, pottery and charcoal.
Four cairns of a cemetery on Holne Ridge south of Horn's Cross: a 16.5 m by 14 m mound 1.4 m high, a ring cairn 11.9 m across and two smaller cairns.
A dressed granite wayside cross shaft, 1.6 m high, on the slopes of Crane Hill above Foxtor Mires, probably moved from the Abbots' Way.
A medieval cross head, arms and top 0.57 m wide, cemented on a modern shaft in an old socket stone, restored in 1934, at the north-west end of Whitchurch Down.
A cairn 5.5 m across and 0.5 m high with a kerb of nine or ten stones up to a metre tall and a restored cist, beside the Langcombe Brook near Grim's Grave.
A wayside cross, 1.4 m high, near the summit of Hameldown Tor, moved in 1854 to mark the boundary of Natsworthy Manor and cut HC DS 1854.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 178, 1900“The only signs of life are the furry inhabitants of the warren, and, perchance, a herd of Dartmoor ponies, wild as the country over which they roam, and a few sheep or cattle grazing on the slopes.”
Also on Our DartmoorTed Hughes Memorial Stone — A simple stone memorial to poet Ted Hughes on the open moor, marking his deep connection to Dartmoor's wild landscape.