Cairn

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Main image: Drizzlecombe 3 prehistoric stone row - 8 metres from location - image by Sandy Gerrard (CC BY-SA 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons

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Period: Bronze Age

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Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks, sites near here The Megalithic Portal, nearest recorded site

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View from Great Links Tor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“The Gubbings land is a Scythia within England, and they be pure heathens therein... Their wealth consists in other men's goods, and they live by stealing the sheep on the More...”
Thomas Fuller (Worthies of England, 1662), quoted by Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Dartmoor, 1907

Also on Our DartmoorBetsy Grimbal's Tower — A tower in the Tavistock vicarage garden that kept the name of a woman said to have been murdered there, borrowed by Mrs Bray for a character in her novel Fitz of Fitzford.

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