Sourton Down Cross: a granite slab 2.13 m high with a Romano-Christian inscription, probably 6th century and reused as a wayside cross in the 14th or 15th century, with H, T, O and L letters for Hatherleigh, Tavistock, Okehampton and Launceston, moved in the 1980s.
The Dancers stone ring, 15.5 m across with 26 stones, at the south end of a single stone row about 3.3 km long on Stall Moor.
“Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me thy grey mare, / All along, down along, out along, lee. / For I want for to go to Widdecombe Fair, / Wi' Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, / Dan'l Whiddon, Harry Hawk, / Old Uncle Tom Cobleigh and all.”
Who wrote this?
An outlying group beside Bellever Forest: a kerbed cairn 7.7 m across with a robbed cist 1.4 m long, a smaller cairn, and a 0.95 m standing stone 6.6 m away, cist dug before 1901.
A hut circle settlement above Cherry Brook with an enclosure and 14 huts, two cairns with cists on its east edge, and a post-medieval house and linhay cutting through the enclosure.
The Longash stone circle at Merrivale: 11 stones in a ring 18.5 m across, a 3.2 m tapering standing stone 33 m south, a cairn, a fallen 2 m stone and a short row.
Two joined enclosures with six hut circles, 2.7 to 4.2 m across, on a north-facing slope above Newleycombe Lake.
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Sticklepath, Okehampton
Sticklepath Quaker Burying Ground is located in the middle of this historic Dartmoor village, tucked away in a peaceful setting behind Finch’s Foundry, on the banks of the tumbling Taw River.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“A lonely, desolate spot, forsaken even by the cattle and wild ponies of the forest, but yet affording a far off glimpse of the cultivated world beyond those hills which form a barrier to the north.”
Also on Our DartmoorRoutrundle Pound — A prehistoric pound on a west-facing slope of Ingra Tor, 58 m by 54 m inside, with a stone hut circle in the middle.
