“It is the furze which is the glory of the moor, with its dazzling gold and its honey breath, fighting for existence against the farmer who fires it every year, and envelops Dartmoor in a cloud of smoke from March to June.”
Also on Our DartmoorRider's Rings — Bronze Age stone circles on open moorland, their purpose still debated after millennia on Dartmoor.
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Plate from A Book of Dartmoor, page 167, 1900