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Hut Circle SW of Honeybag Tor
Bonehill, Moretonhampstead, Devon
Grid ref: SX 7257 7840 Find this on the Map Reference Finder
This hut circle is one of hundreds scattered across Dartmoor, remnants of Bronze Age settlements that clung to these high moors between 1500 and 1000 BC.
- Period: Bronze Age
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Plate from A Book of Dartmoor, page 290, 1900“He sits very quiet now for hours at a time, perched on a moor-stone so still as a heron.”
Also on Our DartmoorDewerstone Rock — The great cliff of granite above the Plym at Shaugh Bridge, rising almost sheer from the river, with its name probably from the Celtic word for water.
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