Exeter
Exeter bookseller and publisher (1856-1914) of 230 High Street, Mayor of Exeter in 1908, who published Devon Notes and Queries, the 1896 Perambulation of Dartmoor and Eva C. Rogers's The Magic Mist.
“He told me incredible tales of the large, glaring-eyed monsters that had stared at him as he lay in the bog.”
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Plympton, Plymouth
Plymouth solicitor and antiquary (1837-1908), nephew of Samuel Rowe, who edited the 1896 edition of the Perambulation of Dartmoor and served the Devonshire Association as president and joint secretary.
Ashburton
Ashburton antiquary and lieutenant-colonel of volunteers (1839-1907), treasurer of the Devonshire Association from 1893, secretary of its Folk-lore Committee and joint editor of Devon Notes and Queries.
Doctor and indexer (M.D., F.R.C.S.), one of the first members invited to the Grimspound dig of 1894, who compiled the Devonshire Association's indexes to Risdon and to Dartmoor.
Mary Tavy
Clergyman who dug the Watern Oke hut circles in the summer of 1905 and wrote the Dartmoor Exploration Committee's eleventh report, and who opened two small cairns in the Tavy valley.
A free guide to Dartmoor's prehistoric settlements, stone rows, circles and cists, with walks planned round public transport, site tables, GPS data and scans of the old exploration reports.
The Devonshire Association committee that dug, surveyed and re-erected Dartmoor's hut circles, stone rows and cairns from 1893, with eleven reports by 1906 and a twelfth in 1935.
Meavy
A modern wayside cross on a tall shaft at the edge of Wigford Down, replacing a lost medieval cross whose base lay by the road opposite Urgles Farm.
Dousland
A granite socket stone at the lane entrance to Burham Farm near Dousland, thought by some to be the original base of the Yennadon Cross.
Kestor hut circles. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Nor can imagination body forth a place more congenial to the sights and sounds of dark and blood-stained rites, than this dreary, narrow, rock-strewn glen of the Dart.”
Also on Our DartmoorCrownhill Fort — A striking Victorian fortress crowning the high moor, built to defend against an invasion that never came.
