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This reave is a length of the ancient boundary walls that crisscross Dartmoor, dividing the moorland into fields and territories. Built during the Bronze Age, reaves represent one of the moor's most significant archaeological features, showing how people organised and managed the landscape thousands of years ago. They run for miles across open ground, often following the contours of the hills.
On Hingston Hill today, the reave survives as a low stone wall, weathered by centuries of exposure but still traceable across the moorland. A scheduled monument, it forms part of the wider pattern of prehistoric land use that defines this corner of Dartmoor. Walking here, you see the moor much as Bronze Age communities knew it: open, windswept, and marked by the enduring lines of their ambitions.
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