Burley Wood motte and hillfort
A 44 m motte 4 m high with two baileys beside an oval Iron Age hillfort with a double rampart, 144 m by 94 m, and five more banks and ditches on its south side, in Burley Wood.
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A 44 m motte 4 m high with two baileys beside an oval Iron Age hillfort with a double rampart, 144 m by 94 m, and five more banks and ditches on its south side, in Burley Wood.
Cadover, Shaugh Prior
Stone road bridge over the River Plym on Dartmoor's south-west edge, with a free National Trust car park and the usual start for walks to Trowlesworthy Tor.
An oval cairn 5.9 m by 3.9 m on the north-west slope of Homerton Hill above the West Okement valley, part of a cairnfield.
A Bronze Age cairn standing on the open moor, its stones weathered by millennia of Dartmoor wind and rain.
A Bronze Age cairn standing among Dartmoor's open moorland, marking ancient presence on the high plateau.
Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 190, 1900“the inside of the prisons presents a melancholy and disagreeable aspect and one would imagine they were calculated for cattle rather then the human species,”
Also on Our DartmoorThe Cemetery: Cosdon triple stone row and cairn — The Cosdon triple stone row, known as The Cemetery: 138 m long, three rows with at least 118 stones, ending in a cairn with two joined cists, dug in 1896.