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This charming well-house of around 1500 stands over an ancient spring, believed to cure whooping cough.
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The largest artificial mound in Europe and comparable in size to the Egyptian pyramids. Probably completed around 2400 BC, it apparently contains no burial and its purpose and significance remain unknown.
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Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications
An excavated section, part cut into rock, of the ramparts of the huge Iron Age trading and power-centre of the Brigantes, the most important tribe in pre- Roman northern Britain.
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Pike Hill Signal Tower - Hadrian's Wall
The remains of one of a network of signal towers predating Hadrian's Wall, Pike Hill was later joined to the Wall at an angle of 45 degrees.
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Porth Hellick Down Burial Chamber
A large and imposing Scillonian Bronze Age entrance grave, with kerb, inner passage and burial chamber all clearly visible.
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The guest house and other remains of a Benedictine priory: much of the fine 12th to 14th century monastic church survives as the parish church.
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Harrows Scar Milecastle and Wall - Hadrian's Wall
A mile-long section of the Wall, rebuilt in stone later in Hadrian's reign. It is linked to Birdoswald Roman Fort.
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Merrivale Prehistoric Settlement
The group of monuments at Merrivale is one of the finest on Dartmoor: side by side here are the remains of a Bronze Age settlement and a complex of ritual sites.
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Carrawburgh Roman Fort and Temple of Mithras - Hadrian's Wall
One of 16 forts along Hadrian’s Wall, Carrawburgh once housed about 500 soldiers responsible for defending the frontier. Nearby stands a fascinating temple to the god Mithras, with facsimiles of altars found during excavation.
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The best known of many Dartmoor prehistoric settlements, Grimspound dates from the late Bronze Age. The remains of 24 stone houses survive within a massive boundary wall.