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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Gallows Hill
Antiquities

Gallows Hill

A scheduled monument on Dartmoor marking the site of a former gallows, a stark reminder of historic justice on the moor.

Gate House
Antiquities

Gate House

A Grade II* listed gatehouse, a modest but sturdy survivor from the post-medieval period on the edge of Dartmoor.

Antiquities

Giant's Grace (Cairns)

Bronze Age cairns scattered across open moorland, their stones weathered by millennia of Dartmoor wind and rain.

Heritage & Places

Giants Basin

Nattor, Ivybridge

An enigmatic Bronze Age basin carved into the moorland granite, its purpose still debated among archaeologists.

Antiquities

Gidleigh Manor Pound

A sturdy stone pound nestled on the open moor, built to contain livestock that strayed across Dartmoor's unfenced landscape.

Antiquities

Goldsmith's cross

A weathered stone cross marking an ancient route across the high moor, its origins lost to time but its presence enduring.

Heritage & Places

Goosey Creep

Kingsett, Tavistock

Mysterious stone ruins tucked into Dartmoor's moorland, their purpose still whispered about by those who venture out to find them.

Antiquities

Granite Cross

A weathered granite cross standing alone on the open moor, its origins lost to time but its presence unmistakable.

Great Bidlake
Antiquities

Great Bidlake

A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the high moor, likely medieval or early post-medieval in origin.