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Giant's Grace (Cairns)

Grid ref: SX 7679 8747

On walking routes: Dunsford to Moretonhampstead Trail

  • Period: Bronze Age
  • Grid reference: SX 7679 8747 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“But this was only an illusion; a small hillock, on rather higher ground, sometimes but a few yards distant, being the object to which the treacherous mist had given the appearance of a hill.”

Also on Our DartmoorKitty Jay (song) — Seth Lakeman's song of the Dartmoor legend of Kitty Jay, the servant girl buried at the crossroads near Hound Tor. Title track of his 2004 album.

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