Cairns & Barrows
Stalldown Cairn Circle
Bronze Age stone circle on open moorland, its weathered stones still marking ancient ritual ground after four millennia.
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Marchant's Cross
A weathered stone cross standing alone on open moorland, marking centuries of travel and trade across Dartmoor's high ground.
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Stone Circle
A Bronze Age stone circle standing on open moorland, its weathered stones still marking an ancient gathering place.
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Double Waters
Walreddon, Tavistock
Where two rivers meet on the high moor, creating a confluence of water and wild landscape.
Cairns & Barrows
Cairn
A Bronze Age cairn standing on the open moor, its stones weathered by millennia of Dartmoor wind and rain.
Dartmoor quiz
“The only thing that brought us home on long summer evenings was the ring of a handbell by Mum standing at the field gate calling us in for supper.”
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Crosses
Hobajon's Cross
Granite cross between Harford and Ugborough, probably a reused prehistoric stone-row stone. It became a parish boundary marker in 1782-84.
Standing Stones & Menhirs
The Longstone, Piles Hill
Harford, Ivybridge
A coarse pink granite stone at the northern end of the Butterdon Hill stone row on Piles Hill, near South Brent, with an 1803 boundary stone beside it.
Other Heritage Sites
Trafalger Way Plaque
Bridestowe, Okehampton
A modest plaque on open moorland commemorating the crew of HMS Trafalgar, lost at sea in 1901.
Other Heritage Sites
Cornwood War Memorial
Cornwood, Ivybridge
A modest stone memorial in Cornwood village honouring those from the parish who fell in the World Wars.
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“They would always time their departure from Princetown so as to clear the pixie-haunted moor before dark, and from the upper windows of the prison one might watch them winding the distant mule tracks sinuously like torpid snakes.”
Also on Our DartmoorPetre's Pit — A tin mine pit carved into Dartmoor's granite moorland, testament to centuries of mining that shaped this landscape.
