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Two pillow mounds and a small area of tin streamwork 510m south west of Ditsworthy Warren House forming part of Willings Walls Warren

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This scheduled monument forms part of Willings Walls Warren, a medieval rabbit warren that once occupied this stretch of Dartmoor. The site consists of two pillow mounds, the characteristic humped earthworks where rabbits were encouraged to burrow, alongside a small area of tin streamwork showing how the moor's mineral wealth was extracted.

The warren and tinning activity sit side by side, reflecting how Dartmoor's medieval and post-medieval economy layered different uses across the landscape. Today, these low earthworks remain visible in the moorland, a quiet record of farming practices and mining that sustained communities on the edge of the high moor.

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Photo: Derek Harper (CC BY-SA 2.0) via Wikimedia Commons

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