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Grimspound, on the N. W. declivity of Hamildown, has been 

 already described. On the summit of Hamildown is a barraw; 

 one of these monuments is also seen on King tor, N. E. The 

 portion of trackway on Hamildown, is supposed to be a continu- 

 ation of the great trackway. On the N. E. side of Hamildown, 

 a circular inclosure, called Berry pound, will be scarcely discern- 

 ible, from the fern and heather by which it has been overgrown. 



About three miles N. N. W. from Sittaford tor, is the high table 

 land in the centre of the moor, forming an extensive morass, from 

 which the principal streams in Devonshire take their rise. At 

 Cranmere pool, within its precincts, is the source of the East 

 Ockment. This swampy tract divides the water courses, — those 

 streams which flow respectively northward to the Bristol, and 

 southward, to the English channel. 



Near one of the springs of the Tavy, between Cranmere pool 

 and Furtor, is a single hut of an oval form, thirty feet in circum- 

 ference. Its situation is in one of the most secluded parts of the 

 moor, and no ancient remains have been observed in its vicinity. 



Almost northernly, above the course of the Taw, rises Cawson 

 or Cosdon hill, the highest in Dartmoor. On the side fronting 

 Belstone church is a very perfect trackway, formed in the usual 

 manner, with the exception of having a few stones placed erect 

 at long intervals. Its direction is from the valley and cultivated 

 grounds N. E. by E. four hundred and seventy paces. It ter- 

 minates W. in another of similar character, meeting it in an acute 

 angle. Near it is a dilapidated cairn. 



On the ridge of the mountain, N. from its highest point, is a 

 cairn, inclosed by a fence of slab stones, closely set, leaning out- 

 wards, apparently, so placed by design. The highest of these 

 inclosing stones is three feet, and the object seems to have been 

 to confine the small stones, of which the cairn is composed within 

 their compass. 



S. W. sixty-four paces, a cairn formed of unusually large stones 

 contains a kistvaen, seven feet square, already described. W. 

 S. W. seventy paces, is a large circle, constructed of closely set 

 slabs, like all the habitation circles on the moor, but considerably 

 larger than any hitherto noticed. Its diameter is fifty feet, and if 

 the smaller ruins convey a notion of the cabins of the people, 

 this from its size bears the appearance of the mansion of the chief. 

 Yet in the centre is a fallen kistvaen, eight feet square, within 

 which we thought we could discover a rude sarcophagus, the cover 

 of which was not more than two feet and a half in breadth. Thi;^ 

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