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Cairn near Warren House Inn

Grid ref: SX 6700 8184

On walking routes: Two Moors Way

Main image: Photo: Mike White (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons

  • Period: Bronze Age
  • Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1020182)
  • Grid reference: SX 6700 8184 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)

The full official description is in the Historic England record linked above.

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View from SheepstorView from Sheepstor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“the inside of the prisons presents a melancholy and disagreeable aspect and one would imagine they were calculated for cattle rather then the human species,”

Anonymous American prisoner of war (copied into the journal of Joseph Valpey Jr.), Journal of Joseph Valpey, jr., of Salem, November, 1813-April, 1815, with other papers relating to his experience in Dartmoor prison, 1922

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