Hut Circle

Bronze Age remains scattered across moorland near Plymouth - that's what you're looking at when you visit a hut circle. These are the foundations of Iron Age roundhouses, their stone footprints still visible after thousands of years. You'll see a rough circular outline of stones, sometimes with a dip in the centre where the floor once sat. Not much to look at in isolation, but wander the Dartmoor landscape and spot several of them together, and you start to feel the weight of it.

This is for people who enjoy a bit of detective work on foot. Walkers and history types get the most out of it - families with very young children might struggle with the landscape itself rather than the attraction. There's no visitor centre, no information boards necessarily, just the stones and your imagination. You'll need decent maps or local knowledge to find the circles; they're not signposted like a typical heritage site.

Allow a couple of hours if you're making a morning of it, longer if you're combining several sites across Dartmoor. Spring and autumn are best - summer heat off the exposed moor can be intense, winter can be boggy. Free to visit, and there's car parking nearby if you pick your spot carefully.

Pair it with Dartmoor Domes or Langstone Manor Holiday Park if you're basing yourself in the area. Both are under seven miles away and give you a proper base for exploring the moor properly. The hut circles work best as part of a wider Dartmoor ramble rather than a single destination.