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Dartmoor Heritage

Dartmoor's archaeology and heritage - antiquities, historic buildings and museums.

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Dartmoor quiz

What is the earliest known source for the legend of Old Crockern?

Sabine Baring-Gould's Book of the West (1899). The earliest known source for Old Crockern is Sabine Baring-Gould's Book of the West (1899), which introduces him with no further explanation, as though the name needed none.

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Cairns & Barrows

Kerbed cairn west of Legis Lake

A grass-covered cairn 8 m across and 0.3 m high with five kerb stones, west of Legis Lake, within 100 m of a stone circle.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“He listened, and distinctly heard one, in a louder tone than the rest, exclaim, "The oven's hot!" "Bake me a cake, then," instantly cried the hungry ploughman.”

Also on Our DartmoorCairn and cist, Black Down — A round cairn 6 m across and 0.7 m high on Black Down with a damaged cist 0.9 m long, its two end slabs in place and the side stones removed, and a kerb round the north-west edge.