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Bidlake 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.
Cairns & Barrows
Bowl barrow at Emmets Post
A bowl barrow 12 m across and 1.5 m high at Emmets Post with a 19th-century boundary stone in its side lettered SM and LM for the Shaugh Moor and Lee Moor china clay setts.
Cairns & Barrows
Bowl barrow on Galford Down, near Westdown Pool
A bowl barrow 21.3 m across and 0.6 m high on the summit of Galford Down with wide views, ringed by a mostly buried ditch 2.7 m wide.
Industrial Archaeology
Brimpts Mine near Outer Huccaby Ring
Bronze Age settlements and tin mining remains on the high moor, with evidence of ancient field systems.
Prehistoric Settlements
Broadun enclosed settlement, Archerton
Broadun enclosed settlement: a circular enclosure 300 m by 260 m with a bank up to 5 m wide, at least 36 hut circles (eleven dug in 1894), a pen, a cairn clipped by the Cherry Brook gunpowder mills leat.
Cairns & Barrows
Cairn 190m west of Archerton
Bronze Age cairn on the open moor west of Archerton, a scheduled monument and marker of prehistoric settlement.
Cairns & Barrows
Cairn on the south slope of White Tor
A cairn 15 m by 6 m and up to 1 m high on the south slope of White Tor, partly dug by the Dartmoor Exploration Committee in 1899, one of at least fourteen cairns there.
Cairns & Barrows
Cairn, Archerton
A cairn 4.8 m across and 0.6 m high on an east slope above the East Dart, with a slight hollow north of centre.
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