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Warren at Sheeps Tor, 520m north of Chubstone Cottage
Devon
This scheduled monument is a medieval rabbit warren, located on the slopes near Sheeps Tor. Warrens were deliberately established and managed sites where rabbits were kept as a valuable food resource, controlled through banks, ditches and purpose-built structures. The warren at Sheeps Tor would have served a manorial estate, providing fresh meat and fur to the household or market.
Today the site shows the earthwork traces of this medieval enterprise: banks, ditches and platforms that once defined the warren's boundaries and working areas. The landscape here tells of a time when every useful resource on Dartmoor was exploited and managed. Walking across these upland slopes, you can sense the layered history of the moor and how people have shaped it over centuries.
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