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Drewsteignton
Prestonbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort located on a hilltop near Drewsteignton, some 240 metres above sea level. It stands overlooking the Teign Valley and is close to two other hill forts, about 2 km away.
Moretonhampstead
A granite tor of 319 m at the north-west end of Lustleigh Cleave, with an oval Iron Age hillfort on the hilltop above it.
Shaugh Prior, Plymouth
National Trust ancient oak woodland in the Plym and Meavy valleys near Shaugh Prior, a Site of Special Scientific Interest for its moss and lichen diversity, with 19th-century mining remains and an Iron Age hillfort around the Dewerstone.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“He could only see the vague mass of the cart and the yellow ray it shot from a lamp into the mist.”
Also on Our DartmoorEarly Christian inscribed stone, Uphill — An early Christian inscribed stone of about AD 550, a granite pillar 1.75 m high reading DAPANNICI NASC FI, perhaps 'the stone of Dapannicius, son of Nascus', near Uphill farmhouse.
