Subscriptions: April 2024

Hello and Happy New Year everyone! 

The Dartefacts website has been in existence now for over ten years and throughout that time it has been a free resource for anyone interested in learning what’s to be found out on those dark, brooding moors.

The original idea for “Dartefacts” was Rob Naylor’s and he has been supported in creating this fabulous website by Max Piper, Peter and Karin Brooks and Peter Kearney. All have brought their own personal expertise and made this popular site the incredible database that it has now become. Unfortunately, although we have a variety of skills, none of the team are expert coders and thus technical work is carried out by a paid Professional Website Developer. To date this work has been funded entirely by Rob. Dartefacts has received donations from people who use the site and that has been appreciated. It has also been grateful to receive sponsorship from Dartmoor News (thanks Paul Rendell!). Sadly, these contributions do not cover the costs incurred in improving and maintaining this valuable resource and so Dartefacts will become a subscription site this April (2024).

A Subscriber to the site will have the same benefits currently enjoyed by a Registered User; 

• Full 1:25 zoom for all Ordnance Survey (OS) maps across the site

• Visible 10 figure OS National Grid References for all Dartefacts

• The ability to tick off visits

• Access to DarteWalks 

Current Registered Users who decide to not subscribe will have their ‘Tick List’ frozen. This means that you can always return, resubscribe and none of your ticks will have been lost.

People who do not subscribe will still be able to view the same content that non-registered visitors enjoy today; with the exception that they will not be able to view DarteWalks.

We will provide further details in the coming months.

Many thanks,

The Dartefacts Team.

Some Dartefacts to be Deleted

In our ongoing process to improve the Dartefacts’ Classification system we have identified some important re-classifying required within the ‘rivers, streams, brooks’ etc. classification. This has resulted in a need to delete about 101 duplicate Dartefacts where ‘river’ and ‘head of river’ are co-located. As rivers/ streams etc. are linear features and not identifiable points we will no longer be providing a Dartefact item for these (apart from a few that are Dartmoor 365 items – and then we have used items such as islands to locate). This development will delete a few Users’ ticks – so if you see a sudden drop in your tick numbers don’t panic! We have estimated this ‘tick-loss’ will only effect about 31 Users. The good news is that we will also be adding 195 new items – ‘River Feet’ – which I’m sure a few ‘Baggers’ will be rushing out to collect! River feet are the confluence where a smaller river/ stream etc. meets and joins a more major one. Where a few rivers exit the DNPA boundary we will provide a ‘River Exit’ instead of a ‘Foot’. Most of those Exits are very close to roads and so will be easy bagging! By doing this update every river/ stream etc. will have both a ‘head’ and a ‘foot’ for completeness.

New Classification Page!

Have you checked out the new way to search for Dartefacts? We’ve put a lot of work into organising the classification hierarchy of items and to go with that a new Classification Page has been designed. This new page design will allow mobile phone users out on the moor even easier access to finding what’s out there!

View the new page here!

Below is an example image of the Classification page – please use the link above to see the new page!

Updates

Dartefacts is currently undergoing a number of updates and map display tests that may cause the site to not load.

Please bear with us as we attempt to improve the user experience.