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Longstone Hill rises as a grassy spur from Yes Tor, with a small cairn and a military flagpole at its summit. It sits high above Meldon Reservoir and the Dam, offering good views to the north, east, and south. The steep approach from the reservoir is a test, but the gentler path contours round the summit to the east. A red flag at the flagpole means no access to the south.
The ridge south of the summit and the slopes around it carry a Bronze Age cairnfield of at least 64 mounds, protected as 26 scheduled monuments, with a hut circle just to the south and a round cairn on the slope of Yes Tor. A recumbent stone on the ridge, the only large stone on the hill, may be the longstone that gave the hill its name. The monuments are described in their own group listing, linked below. Later military training on the hill left trenches and shell hollows among the cairns.
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“The place is deprived of every thing that is pleasant or agreeable, and is productive of nothing but human woe and misery. Even riches, pleasant friends and liberty could not make it agreeable.”
Also on Our DartmoorUS Navy Liberator crash site, West Okement Valley — Where US Navy Liberator 63926 hit the ridge above the West Okement valley in cloud on 28 December 1943, killing all ten crew. Debris runs from the ridge top down towards the river.
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