Tors & Landmarks
Lakehead Hill
A quiet hill in Bellever Forest with ancient stone circles and cists.
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Tors & Landmarks
Butterdon Hill (Moretonhampstead)
Moretonhampstead
Butterdon Hill, 351 m, in north-east Dartmoor north of Moretonhampstead: a 2.3 m granite standing stone on its west side and cairns on the summit.
Tors & Landmarks
Shovel Down
A moorland area with ancient stone rows, the Fourfold Circle and the Long Stone.
Dartmoor quiz
“The simple and time-worn memorials of unchronicled ages, rear their hoary forms amidst the sombre solitudes of the moor.”
Which book is this from?
Stone Rows & Alignments
Stone row NW of Saddlesborough
A Bronze Age stone row on the northwestern slopes above Saddlesborough, among Dartmoor's scattered prehistoric monuments.
Other Heritage Sites
Drizzlecombe Bronze Age Complex
Nattor, Ivybridge
A scattered Bronze Age landscape of stone circles, cairns and burial mounds spread across open moorland, testament to 4,000 years of Dartmoor's deepest past.
Stone Circles
Nine Maidens Stone Circle
Belstone, Okehampton
A Bronze Age cairn circle of at least sixteen low granite stones on the western slope below Belstone Tor, known as the Nine Maidens or the Nine Stones.
Stone Circles
Scorhill Stone Circle
Gidleigh, Chagford
A Bronze Age stone circle standing among open moorland.
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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Plate from The Ancient Stone Crosses of Dartmoor and its Borderland, page 171, 1902“A death-like stillness suddenly seemed to rest upon all around, a quiet which was not a calm, and which had something almost unearthly in it.”
Also on Our DartmoorThe Outline of Dartmoor's Story — A 1951 booklet written and illustrated by Sylvia Sayer that gives newcomers to Dartmoor a bird's-eye history of the moor, from the earliest times to the present day.
