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Which spot on Dartmoor has also been known as "the Devil's Dome"?

Amicombe Hill. Amicombe Hill, also known as the Devil's Dome, is a remote and bleak hill in North Dartmoor, forming an elongated ridge between the West Okement River and Rattle Brook.

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Ring cairn near Devil's Bridge
Cairns & Barrows

Ring cairn near Devil's Bridge

A ring cairn 8 m across inside, a ring of close-set stones up to 0.8 m high on a west-facing slope above the Meavy valley, 220 m south-south-east of Devil's Bridge.

Ring cairn, Riddon Brake
Cairns & Barrows

Ring cairn, Riddon Brake

A flat-topped ring cairn 5.5 m across with three kerb stones on its south edge and a slab that may be a displaced cist cover, above the Walla Brook.

Ring cairn, Barn Hill
Cairns & Barrows

Ring cairn, Barn Hill

A ring cairn on Barn Hill: a rubble bank 2 m wide and 0.6 m high with many edge-set stones round a space 6.6 m across, ringed by a ditch 3 m wide, with views over west Devon and east Cornwall.

Dartmoor Illustrated, page 174Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 174, 1900

“Away to the northward is seen the boggy land in the neighbourhood of Erme Head, with the distant tors peeping over the dark brown ridges.”

Also on Our DartmoorBearacleave North Tor — Bearacleave North Tor, known locally as the Walrus, is a prominent granite formation deep within Bearacleave Wood, just north of Bovey Tracey.