Bronze Age settlement remains scattered across open moorland, where ancient stone circles and hut circles tell stories of Dartmoor's earliest inhabitants.
“It is only when the thick white fog comes down upon the moor that these poor creatures ever dream of freedom.”
Who wrote this?
Abandoned tin mine shafts dotting the open moorland, remnants of Dartmoor's industrial heyday.
Colebrook Village, Plympton
A curious stone arch standing alone on Dartmoor, a quirky monument to 18th-century whimsy among the open moor.
Bagtor, Ashburton
Bronze Age monument on Dartmoor.
Bonehill, Moretonhampstead
Bronze Age monument on Dartmoor.
Bonehill, Moretonhampstead
Bronze Age foundations set into Dartmoor's granite bedrock, where ancient families sheltered within circles of stone.
The second of Dartmoor's two surviving stock pounds, an oval of about an acre and a quarter above the Erme, with hut circles inside and a ruined shelter for the drifts.
