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A Dartmoor fact about Hartland Tor

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William Donaghy, a schoolmaster who died of exposure in 1914, has a memorial rock nearby Hartland Tor.

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Large hut circle, Buttern Hill
Prehistoric Settlements

Large hut circle, Buttern Hill

A hut circle 10.4 m across with a double upright-stone wall up to 1.5 m high, a later drystone wall on its west side and a blocked east entrance, in enclosed land on Buttern Hill.

Hut circle near Penn Beacon
Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circle near Penn Beacon

A stone hut circle 4.7 m across inside, terraced into a south-east slope above the Ford Brook, with its doorway facing south-south-east.

A close-up photograph from DartmoorPhotograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“the country doctor, in hail, rain, snow, or storm, must turn out of a warm bed and ride, often to the dreary waste of Dartmoor, through rough roads and darkness, at the call of humanity,”

Also on Our DartmoorDartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, Volume Two: The North — Volume Two of Jeremy Butler's five-volume Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities (Devon Books, 1991), covering the north of Dartmoor.