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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Antiquities

Pound

Scheduled Monument: a Bronze Age pound and cluster of hut circles on the open moorland north of Down Tor.

Pound
Antiquities

Pound

Bronze Age settlement remains on the northern slopes of Hawk's Tor, with a livestock enclosure and at least two hut circles.

Antiquities

Pound (Rems)

Crumbling stone walls of an ancient livestock pound nestled in Dartmoor's open moorland, a window into centuries of upland farming.

Pound at Newbridge
Antiquities

Pound at Newbridge

A scheduled monument pound at Newbridge, likely medieval, where livestock was once held after straying onto Dartmoor common.

Pounds
Antiquities

Pounds

Bronze Age settlement of pounds and hut circles on the northern slope of Saddlesborough, revealing prehistoric pastoral life on Dartmoor.

Antiquities

Powder Mills

Crumbling stone ruins of 19th-century gunpowder mills hidden in a steep wooded valley on Dartmoor's industrial edge.

Antiquities

Powder Mills

Industrial ruins tucked into a wooded valley, where gunpowder was once manufactured for Britain's wars.

Prehistoric coaxial field system
Antiquities

Prehistoric coaxial field system

Prehistoric field systems and cairns on Peek Hill, with later historic enclosure and RAF remains, revealing millennia of moorland use.

Prehistoric, Hound Tor
Antiquities

Prehistoric, Hound Tor

Remains of prehistoric and medieval settlements with their surrounding field systems, visible on the open moor.