Enclosure east of Down Tor near Combshead Tor

This scheduled monument is the remains of an enclosure that likely dates to the Bronze Age, when Dartmoor's high ground supported scattered communities living within defended or stock-controlling field systems. The site lies on open moorland northeast of Combshead Tor, part of the dense archaeology of this upland landscape.

Walking the moor here today, you encounter the subtle earthworks that define its boundaries and interior divisions. Such enclosures are common across Dartmoor, telling of a time when the climate was warmer and agriculture extended higher than it does now. The site sits within a broader pattern of prehistoric settlement that shaped the moorland character we see now.

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