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Cairns & Barrows

Round cairn, Soussons Down

A round cairn 9.7 m across and 0.6 m high on the ridge of Soussons Down, with a pit from an unsuccessful partial dig by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee about 1897.

Dartmoor Illustrated, page 214Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 214, 1900

“In Peter Tavy, too, may be seen " the spinners and knitters in the sun ; " and the very old and the very young are often seen together side by side ; and girls with their pitchers filling them with water from the little channels and rivulets that abound throughout the village. These present ...”

Also on Our DartmoorBidlake Mill and leat — A Grade II listed watermill on the River Lew, first mentioned in 1268, rebuilt in 1565 and mostly 17th century, with an overshot wheel that still drives a circular saw.