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- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1002612)
- Grid reference: SX 58018 69608
The scheduled monument is recorded by Historic England as a pound and hut circles north of Down Tor. A pound is an enclosure for keeping stock, and the hut circles are the low walls of round houses. Historic England holds only a short, older record for it, with no measurements or detailed description, so none are given here. The monument lies about 300 m north of the tor, near the settlements and cairns described on the Down Tor page.
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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 126, 1900“I once heard a woman tell one of her daughters, in a Dartmoor cottage, " to log the child's cradle." There, thought I, is a British word ; log means to rock, hence logging, or logan stone.”
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