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Trendle earthwork NE of Kelly College
Grid ref: SX 4904 7532
On walking routes: Abbot's Way, West Devon Way
Main image: Photo: Derek Harper, Wikimedia Commons
Trendle is a scheduled monument consisting of a circular earthwork, probably a defensive settlement or domestic enclosure dating to the Iron Age or Bronze Age. The site sits on open moorland northeast of Kelly College near Tavistock, where it forms part of Dartmoor's rich pattern of prehistoric settlement and land use.
Today the earthwork survives as a low circular bank and ditch, visible to those who know where to look. Its position on the moor reflects the long history of human occupation on Dartmoor, where such enclosures once housed communities who shared the landscape with livestock and cultivated the surrounding ground. The site is accessible to walkers exploring this part of the moor.
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“'Tis my legs. They bain't contented, like. 'Tis no odds where I put 'em, they wun't bide contented, no place.”
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