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Part of Eylesbarrow watershed reave
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The Eylesbarrow watershed reave is part of a network of stone walls that divided the upland landscape of Dartmoor in prehistoric times. These reaves, as they are known locally, typically date to the Bronze Age and later, and mark territorial or land-use boundaries across the open moor. This particular section sits on the watershed of the Eylesbarrow area, where the lie of the land and the distribution of water sources shaped how people organised and managed the moorland around them.
Today the reave appears as a line of low stone, sometimes substantial, sometimes fragmentary, crossing the moorland. It is best understood as part of a larger system of land division rather than as an isolated monument. Walking the moor here, you encounter it as earlier inhabitants did: a practical mark of ownership or responsibility, now silent and absorbed into the landscape.
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