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Stephen's Grave
Cudlipptown, Tavistock
A granite pillar on a squared granite plinth on Peter Tavy Common, marking where John Stephens, a farm servant who took poison in October 1762, was buried at a crossway as a suicide.
Stone Circles
Stone Circle
Bronze Age stones arranged in a circle on open moorland, a window into Dartmoor's ancient past.
Other Heritage Sites
Sourton Tors Ice Works
Sourton, Okehampton
The banks and hollows of a Victorian ice works on Sourton Tors, where spring water was frozen in shallow ponds from about 1875 and the ice carted away, mostly to Plymouth.
Standing Stones & Menhirs
Standing Stone
A solitary standing stone on open moorland, marking ancient presence on the high plateaus of Dartmoor.
Historic Buildings
Tin Workings
Peat Cot
Weathered stone ruins of tin mining operations scattered across the high moor, remnants of Dartmoor's industrial past.
Other Heritage Sites
Crockern Tor
Two Bridges
The granite hill above Two Bridges where the tinners of Devon held their Stannary Parliament, with accounts from Risdon, Bray, Rowe and Crossing.
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View from Shelstone Tor. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“In the afternoon, in service time, there happened a very great darkness... a ball of fire came in likewise at the window, and passed through the church... There were in all four persons killed, and sixty-two hurt...”
Also on Our DartmoorCairn south-west of Gutter Tor — A flat-topped cairn 9 m across and 0.3 m high just west of an enclosure south-west of Gutter Tor, reported to have had a central cist, 80 m south-east of a cist.
