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Dartmoor Heritage

Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.

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Antiquities

Druid Mine Engine House

Ruined engine house from Dartmoor's tin-mining past, standing solitary on the open moor.

Antiquities

Druids Well

Middlecott, Chagford

A historic water well on Dartmoor, likely medieval or earlier in origin, serving communities on the high moor.

Antiquities

Dunnabridge Pound

A medieval livestock enclosure on open moorland, where Dartmoor farmers once penned straying animals.

Antiquities

Dunstone Cross

Lower Dunstone, Ashburton

A modest medieval wayside cross standing on the open moor, marking an old route across Dartmoor.

Easdon Farmhouse
Antiquities

Easdon Farmhouse

A grade II* listed farmhouse on the eastern edge of Dartmoor, likely medieval in origin with later additions.

Eastern White Barrow
Antiquities

Eastern White Barrow

A Bronze Age burial mound on Dartmoor's eastern slopes, marked by pale stone.

Eight cairns
Antiquities

Eight cairns

Eight Bronze Age cairns and a stone alignment on Holne Ridge, part of an ancient cemetery landscape.

Antiquities

Eight hut circles

Bronze Age stone hut circles and a shieling in an unenclosed settlement on Dartmoor's open moorland.

Eight hut circles
Antiquities

Eight hut circles

Bronze Age settlement of ten stone structures on the open moor south of Leeden Tor, revealing patterns of ancient Dartmoor life.