Our Dartmoor Directory

Windy Post

A weathered granite wayside cross standing on open moorland north of Sampford Spiney, likely medieval in origin.

Wooston Castle

Scheduled hillfort earthwork in Fingle Woods above the Teign gorge, assumed to be Iron Age. A 2018 dig found a medieval radiocarbon date in the upper ditch fill and no dating evidence for the Iron Age assumption.

Yar Tor stone row

Bronze Age stone row and burial cist on open moorland.

Yennadon Cross

A medieval wayside cross standing 340m south of Peekhill on the open moor, marking an old route across Dartmoor.

Cairnfield near a ford on the Small Brook

Bronze Age cairnfield and stone hut circle settlement in the upper Small Brook valley, with a boundary stone marker.

Cluster of five hut circles near Ger Tor

Bronze Age settlement of five stone hut circles within an enclosed field, north-east of Ger Tor on central Dartmoor.

Cluster of five hut circles situated within a large enclosure near Ger Tor

Five Bronze Age stone hut circles within a defended enclosure on the moorland north-east of Ger Tor.

Double stone alignment near Black Tor

Bronze Age stone alignment and cairn group on the south-west slopes of Black Tor, marking ancient ritual or territorial significance.

Double hut circle, Watern Oke

Bronze Age stone hut circle settlement on the open moor, with a distinctive pair of roundhouse foundations.