Enclosed settlement near Doetor Farm

This scheduled monument preserves the traces of a small enclosed settlement dating to the Bronze Age, one of many such sites scattered across Dartmoor. The settlement lies on the open moor south of Doctor Farm, where it occupies a position typical of prehistoric communities: accessible yet defensible, with views across the landscape. The enclosing banks and internal features remain visible today as low earthworks, worn by centuries of moorland weather and grazing.

Walking here, you move through a palimpsest of Dartmoor's past. The site sits within a wider pattern of ancient activity, part of the network of Bronze Age occupation that shaped the moor between roughly 2000 and 800 BC. For those who know how to read the moorland, such settlements reveal how people once lived and worked on this upland landscape, adapting to soil and seasons that have changed little in their essentials.

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