One of the largest unenclosed hut circle settlements on Dartmoor: dozens of stone huts on a south-facing slope above the River Tavy, dug by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1905.
Two rowan trees growing side by side on the slope of Oke Tor, looking out over Taw Marsh, named by Glavind Strachan Photography and recorded on Dartefacts under the same name.
Archaeologist and author of the English Heritage Book of Dartmoor (1997), whose fieldwork is credited in many Historic England records of Dartmoor monuments.
Belstone
A granite stack lower down the hill from Higher Tor on the Okehampton Common side of Belstone, with wide views over the northern moor and the firing range beside it.
South Zeal
A 6 ft boundary stone cut SZ 2 and DC 2 (South Zeal and Duchy of Cornwall) at Rabbits' Holt, Cosdon Hill, one of a line put up in 1885 after the 1883 enclosure dispute.
A Dartmoor fact about Hartland Tor
Belstone
Two OPB (Okehampton Parish Bounds) stones at Cullever Steps, the larger a 19th-century replacement for the smaller: Dartefacts BS No.14 and BS No.15.
Belstone
The underground water works built in the late 1950s to take radon out of Taw Marsh water: a concrete building with skylights, sold or offered for sale in 2014, 2018 and 2023.
A stone arch bridge over the East Okement River on the track to the Oke Tor lookout, built for the army's Okehampton Artillery Range: span 4.1 m, width 4.3 m.
Belstone
Three parish boundary stones close together on Belstone Common near Lower Tor: two Belstone stones (BB and a smaller, older BB/P) and an OPB Okehampton stone.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 90, 1900“Dartmoor soaked up this illumination like a sponge, and did not waken at its tepid touch.”
Also on Our DartmoorLittle Hound Tor — A small granite outcrop below the summit of Little Whit Hill. Its name goes back to the 1240 forest bound Parva Hundetorre, though which hill that meant is disputed.
