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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Ringwork
Antiquities

Ringwork

Layered defensive site with ringwork, castle, Saxon town and earthworks on the edge of Dartmoor.

Antiquities

Roman hill fort

Iron Age fort crowning a Dartmoor hilltop, where ramparts still trace the defensive ambitions of ancient communities.

Heritage & Places

Roman Vicus

Chichacott, Okehampton

Remains of a Roman trading settlement nestled in the high moorland, where soldiers and merchants once gathered at the edge of empire.

Roman's Cross near the church
Antiquities

Roman's Cross near the church

A medieval stone cross standing west of the church, a scheduled monument marking centuries of Dartmoor worship and travel.

Roughtor parallel reave
Antiquities

Roughtor parallel reave

A Bronze Age field system on Roughtor, marked by parallel lines of stone banks running across the moorland.

Antiquities

Round cairn

Bronze Age round cairn, one of many in a cairnfield scattered across Longstone Hill on Dartmoor.