Two circular walks, one to Whitehorse Hill and the other to Cut Hill, the locations of remote Bronze Age stone graves, known as cists.

The Whitehorse Hill cist was excavated in 2011 to reveal exquisite contents preserved in peat for millenia. It was not certain that the stones on Cut Hill were a cist until they were excavated in August 2024. Pieces of shaped and cut wood were found within the stones, and the remainder of the contents were removed for painstaking analysis, with the full findings yet to be revealed.

Both cists came to light as the peat they had been buried in eroded, as a result of historic peat cutting.  Dartmoor’s degraded peatlands are now being restored and we can inspect some of this work en route. These are fairly challenging walks made worthwhile by their remote peatland beauty, the stone rows and other prehistoric monuments we pass, and, if we are blest with fine weather, stunning views across the north moor.