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Grimspound

Dartmoor, Devon

A walled Bronze Age village of 24 huts on the open moor.

Grimspound is a great stone wall enclosing about four acres of hillside, with the ruins of at least 24 round huts inside. One still has its doorway.

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When
c. 1300 BC
Where
50.6110, -3.8370
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

Free. A short walk from the road near Headland Warren.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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