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Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities
1991 · Devon Books
The Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities is a five-volume survey of Dartmoor's archaeological sites by Jeremy Butler, published by Devon Books between 1991 and 1997. The Dartmoor Society, which gave Butler its first Dartmoor Society Award in 1998, described it as the results of twenty years' study set down over seven years in nearly 1200 pages, and said he did his own aerial and ground photography and surveys.
- Author: Jeremy Butler
- Publisher: Devon Books (Exeter, then Tiverton)
- Volumes: Five, 1991 to 1997. Four are regional (East, North, South-West, South-East); the fifth is thematic, on the Second Millennium BC
- Format: Paperback
- In print?: Not as far as we can find: second-hand copies only, and no digital copy to read or borrow
The five volumes
- Volume One: The East (1991)
- Volume Two: The North (1991)
- Volume Three: The South-West (1994)
- Volume Four: The South-East (1993)
- Volume Five: The Second Millennium BC (1997)
What it is used for
The Atlas works region by region, with numbered maps, commentary, line drawings and plans, and grid references for the sites it mentions. Historic England's scheduled monument records cite it as a source: the entry for the Crow Tor cairn and cist (list entry 1016922) gives it as Volume 5, page 196. It is also cited by archaeologists writing about Dartmoor's cists and stone circles, and Volume Five holds the catalogues those writers refer to.
Related: The Archaeology of Dartmoor from the Air (Tom Greeves, 1985), Tom Greeves and The Dartmoor Society.
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Hawthorn by the river Lyd. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“You notice, Miss Beatrice, next time us gets a brave storm of wind and rain how they all does. Bullocks always stand side to 'en." ... "You notice a horse," he continued. "He'll face it — always. Runs into it. Sheep now, they'm just the contrary, they turn tail and run before it. But a hare be the ...”
Also on Our DartmoorCairn 190m west of Archerton — Bronze Age cairn on the open moor west of Archerton, a scheduled monument and marker of prehistoric settlement.
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