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Coaxial field system, associated and later remains at Throwleigh Common and Kennon Hill
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The coaxial field system here is a rare and informative survival from the Bronze Age, when Dartmoor's uplands were more intensively farmed and settled than they are today. The distinctive parallel arrangement of fields and boundaries reflects a planned approach to land use, with later modifications showing how successive generations adapted these systems to their own needs.
Walking across Throwleigh Common and Kennon Hill, visitors can trace the earthwork remains of these ancient divisions in the heather and grass. The site sits within the broader pattern of prehistoric settlement that shaped Dartmoor's open landscape, and the later activity recorded here reminds us that the moor has been a working place for thousands of years, not a wilderness.
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