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Two enclosures and a length of the Eylesbarrow watershed reave 800m WSW of Eylesbarrow
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Two small enclosures and a substantial length of reave occupy high ground west of Eylesbarrow on central Dartmoor. The reave, a characteristic Bronze Age field boundary built from unmortared stone, runs across the watershed and forms part of the complex patchwork of land division that once ordered this upland landscape. Such systems suggest organised pastoral farming and territorial boundaries dating back several thousand years.
Today the site presents as archaeological earthworks within open moorland, legible to those who understand how to read the moor's layered history. The reave and enclosures remain largely as they were left, offering insight into how Dartmoor's ancient inhabitants managed and divided their land. The setting, exposed and windswept, gives a sense of the terrain these early farmers worked.
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