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Prehistoric Settlements

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Bronze Age settlement earthworks etched into Dartmoor's high plateau, where ancient communities shaped the landscape millennia ago.

Bronze Age
Dartmoor quiz

What on Dartmoor are also been known as "the Yeth Hounds"?

The Wisht Hounds of Wistman's Wood. The popular version goes like this: on winter nights, particularly around Wistman's Wood, you might hear the Wisht Hounds (also called the Yeth Hounds or Wish Hounds) hunting across the moor.

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FolkloreThe Wisht Hounds of Wistman's Wood
Prehistoric Settlements

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Bronze Age settlement enclosure on open moorland, where ancient stone walls still define the boundaries of domestic life from thousands of years ago.

Bronze Age
Brown's House
Historic Buildings

Brown's House

Powder Mills, Chagford

Weathered stone ruins of a moorland dwelling, revealing how people once lived on Dartmoor's exposed granite landscape.

Dunnabridge Pound
Prehistoric Settlements

Dunnabridge Pound

The stock pound beside the Two Bridges to Ashburton road, where straying cattle from the Forest were driven at the annual drifts, with its court-roll mentions and the Judge's Chair at the gate.

Medieval
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Prehistoric Settlements

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Bronze Age settlement remains hidden in Dartmoor's open moorland.

Bronze Age
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Shoveldown Stone RowsShoveldown Stone Rows. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“The narrow vale of the Teign seen from this spot, thus enveloped in shade, seems to sink deeper down into gloom and pleasing mystery.”

Also on Our DartmoorDartmoor's Policeman Poet: The Verses of Constable John L. Webber of Widecombe-in-the-Moor 1863-1891 — Simon Dell's collection of the verses of Constable John L. Webber, the Victorian policeman-poet of Widecombe-in-the-Moor.