Medieval farmstead, Willings Walls Warren

This scheduled monument combines evidence of activity spanning from the Bronze Age to the medieval period. The site centres on Willings Walls Reave, a substantial stone boundary that divides the moorland, likely constructed during the Bronze Age to define territories or pasture. Within and around this landscape lie four round cairns, a ring cairn, and pillow mounds, the latter indicating medieval rabbit warrens worked by farming communities.

A medieval farmstead sits within this layered archaeology, showing how later inhabitants adapted and used the ancient framework of the moor. The combination of reave, cairns and warren reveals how Dartmoor's communities returned to and reshaped the same land across centuries, each generation leaving its mark on the landscape.

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