Explore the Moor
Dartmoor is scattered with thousands of ancient and historic features. Pick a type below to see them all, from stone circles and burial cairns to wayside crosses, holy wells and old clapper bridges.
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Prehistoric Settlements 443
Hut circles, pounds and enclosures.
Photo: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Cairns & Barrows 330
Prehistoric burial mounds of heaped stone.
Photo: Reading Tom from Reading, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Historic Buildings 217
Notable historic buildings across the moor.
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Industrial Archaeology 72
Tin mines, blowing houses and leats.
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Crosses 70
Medieval wayside and boundary crosses.
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Milestones & Boundary Markers 47
Milestones, guide stones and boundary marks.
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Churches & Chapels 44
Historic churches and moorland chapels.
Photo: Vieve Forward, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Stone Rows & Alignments 43
Lines of stones marching across the open moor.
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Bronze Age land boundaries and field systems.
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Iron Age forts and defensive earthworks.
Photo: Alan Hunt, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Stone Circles 23
Rings of standing stones raised in the Bronze Age.
Photo: Calips, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Bridges & Crossings 23
Clapper bridges and ancient crossing points.
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Cists & Kistvaens 10
Stone burial boxes, the Dartmoor kistvaens.
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Standing Stones & Menhirs 9
Lone upright stones and menhirs.
Photo: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Holy Wells & Springs 7
Springs and wells with old associations.
Photo: Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Museums 5
Places to see the moor's history collected.
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Other Heritage Sites 130
Further heritage sites across the moor.
