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Bronze Age Stone Monuments of Dartmoor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

J. W. Brailsford
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The lofty expanse of heather, bog and bare granite which forms the region under discussion in this paper, contains a numerous and in many ways unique group of prehistoric antiquities. Although Devonshire archaeologists have for many years been doing good work in this district, it has never, to the best of my knowledge, been comprehensively dealt with in the light of modern methods and experience. Consequently, the prehistory of Dartmoor still presents something of a mystery. After describing the material at our disposal, I shall here make a few tentative suggestions which seem to resolve some of the difficulties encountered in the interpretation of the archaeological evidence, and which may throw some light on the prehistory of the rest of southwest England.

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 12 , Issue 48 , December 1938 , pp. 444 - 463
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1938

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* Miss Barbara Shaw, of Wimborne, has recently discovered a microlithic site at Ringhill, near Postbridge. This consists of an occupation layer, containing charcoal and a hearth, and has yielded micro-burins, microliths, and cores of the type usually associated with a microlithic industry. Implements of later types have been found on the same site. I am indebted to Miss Shaw, for allowing me to print this hitherto unpublished information, and to Dr Clark, who first told me of the site.

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