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Wigford Down cross
A medieval wayside cross standing on Wigford Down, near Cadover Bridge, marking an old route across the moor.
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“Away to the eastward we could see the dreary brown ridges in the neighbourhood of Cranmere Pool, over which a deep stillness was brooding, and a lifeless aspect seemed to rest.”
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Crosses
Windy Post
A 2 m granite cross, leaning west, on the col between the Walkham and Tavy valleys beside the Grimstone and Sortridge leat, on the medieval route east from Tavistock.
Hillforts & Earthworks
Wooston Castle
Scheduled hillfort earthwork in Fingle Woods above the Teign gorge, assumed to be Iron Age. A 2018 dig found a medieval radiocarbon date in the upper ditch fill and no dating evidence for the Iron Age assumption.
Stone Rows & Alignments
Yar Tor stone row
A triple stone row about 250 m long with about 124 small stones, between Yar Tor and Corndon Tor, ending at Money Pit Cairn.
Stone Circles
Yellowmead Stone Circles
Four stone circles round a central cairn, up to 30 m across, with an arc that may be a fifth circle and a short double stone row 10 m long, on Yellowmead Down.
Crosses
Yennadon Cross
A late medieval cross 1.17 m high with a relief cross on both faces, moved here in 1974 from a gateway where it served upside down as a gatepost; Grade II, a candidate for the 'Yanedonecrosse' of 1280.
Reaves & Field Systems
Reave over Hingston Hill
A 350 m length of reave over the summit of Hingston Hill, a rubble bank 2 m wide, separating a group of ritual monuments from a large settlement.
Cairns & Barrows
A cairn cemetery on Long Ridge
A Bronze Age cemetery of burial cairns scattered across the high ridge.
Cairns & Barrows
Cairnfield, huts and T boundary stone above Taw Marsh
A cairnfield of 21 mounds, three hut circles and a leaning boundary stone cut T on the South Tawton and Forest parish boundary, above Taw Marsh.
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Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Without these paths it would be utterly impossible for any four-footed animal to be taken over the swampy parts of the forest, and there are many places where, in winter, no one to whom they were unknown, could cross even on foot without danger.”
Also on Our DartmoorPew Tor — A striking granite tor with layered rock formations and historic hot cross bun markers.
