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Beehive Hut (Remains)

Challacombe, Chagford, Devon

Grid ref: SX 6857 8181 Find this on the Map Reference Finder

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On walking routes: Two Moors Way

Main image: Ruin near Birch Tor - 17 metres from location - image by Andrew Hackney (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

  • Period: Bronze Age
  • Grid reference: SX 6857 8181 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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Dartmoor Illustrated, page 184Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 184, 1900

“Even the half-wild cattle which range the other parts of the moor at pleasure, seem to shun the swampy steppes of the central wilderness.”

Also on Our DartmoorShell Top — A small yet distinctive granite outcrop on the western end of Broadall Gulf, with Penn Beacon to the south.

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