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Scorhill Circle

Gidleigh, Dartmoor

Dartmoor's finest stone circle, near a stone said to cure the sick.

Scorhill is a ring of rough granite stones on open moor, the tallest well over head height. Ponies graze among them.

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When
Bronze Age
Where
50.6735, -3.8828
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

Open moorland. Park at Scorhill Farm and walk up.

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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