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Dartmoor Heritage

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

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Antiquities

Skir Gut (Tinners' Gully)

A steep granite gully scarred by centuries of tin streaming, where tinners carved their livelihood from Dartmoor's moorland.

Antiquities

Small hut circle, Watern Oke

A Bronze Age stone hut circle at Watern Oke, part of an unenclosed settlement on Dartmoor's high moorland.

Sortridge Manor
Antiquities

Sortridge Manor

A Grade II* listed manor house, likely medieval in origin, standing on the moorland fringes of Dartmoor.

Antiquities

Sousson's Stone Circle

A Bronze Age stone circle standing on open moorland, its weathered stones a quiet testament to Dartmoor's ancient past.

Heritage & Places

South Chimney

Powder Mills

A solitary stone chimney rising from Dartmoor's moorland, all that remains of a tin mining operation from centuries past.

Antiquities

Southern White Hill cairnfield

A Bronze Age cairnfield on the southern slopes of White Hill, with multiple burial mounds scattered across open moorland.

Antiquities

Southernmost cairn

A Bronze Age cairn at the southern end of a cairnfield on Longstone Hill, part of Dartmoor's ancient ritual and burial landscape.

Heritage & Places

Spinsters' Rock

A 5,000-year-old Neolithic burial chamber hidden in bracken and gorse on the open moor.