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Fallen Brother Dolmen

Belstone, Devon

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The Fallen Brother Dolmen is a collapsed dolmen near Irishman's Wall, found in the same research as the Irishman's Wall Circle and the Metheral Stone Circle by Alan Endacott.

Alan named it in tribute to Dartmoor people who died in the two world wars.

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Hound TorHound Tor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“You caan't fill un even now in the drouth, an' come autumn an' rain 't will all be bog again.”

Also on Our DartmoorOval hut circle, Teignhead Farm — An oval hut circle 5 m by 3.7 m inside with a rubble wall 1.5 m wide and an earthfast rock on its south-west side, above the North Teign.

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