Dartmoor pony

Ponies are often imagined as docile – but the Dartmoor pony has a hidden history. Once hunted for meat, archaeological evidence shows its domestication from the Bronze Age. But a wild streak prevailed and during the Roman invasion of Britain in AD 43, Devon’s defiant Dumnonii tribes used Dartmoor ponies to fend off Roman onslaughts. Later, they ferried ore from mines but today, they’re left in peace on the moors.