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Pillow mound 620m ESE of Legis Tor forming part of Willings Walls Warren
Devon
This pillow mound is part of Willings Walls Warren, a medieval rabbit warren that once occupied this stretch of moorland. Pillow mounds are distinctive humped earthworks, typically built to provide burrows for rabbits, which were valuable for meat and fur. They are the physical traces of a deliberate land use that would have been more intensive and managed than the wild moor we see today.
Today the mound sits in open moorland 620m south-east of Legis Tor, part of a wider pattern of warren earthworks scattered across Dartmoor. Walking here, you are crossing landscapes shaped by medieval enterprise and resource management. The mound itself is a modest but unmistakable feature in the terrain, a scheduled monument that speaks to the moor's long history of human use and economy.
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