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Tinners' cache 570m north east of Norsworthy Bridge
Devon
This tinners' cache lies on the high moor north east of Norsworthy Bridge, in an area rich with evidence of medieval and later tin working. Caches like this one were practical storage points where miners could leave tools, ore or provisions during their work on Dartmoor's exposed terrain, rather than carrying everything back and forth each day.
Today it remains as a modest archaeological trace of the everyday life of tinners who worked these slopes. The site sits within the broader landscape of Dartmoor's mining heritage, visible to anyone walking this part of the moor and alert to the marks humans have left on the granite and moorland.
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