EARLY MAN 



FERNWORTHY 



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STONES 



CALM 



of the fields of these farms hut circles formerly existed ; in some, traces of these 

 dwellings still exist, and in others they have been removed within recent recollection. 



The flints are 



turned up in the pro- 

 cess of cultivation, and 

 some fields have yielded 

 several thousand speci- 

 mens, mostly spalls, 

 with occasional finely- 

 worked implements or 

 weapons. The flints 

 are mostly from the 

 chalk, with here and 

 there specimens of 

 chert. As a rule, the 

 spalls have been struck 

 from flint pebbles of 

 no great size, but a 

 few of the larger flakes 

 and some of the finer 

 implements have evi- 

 dently been fabricated 

 from nodules of flint 

 of considerable dimen- 

 sions. The ancient 

 workers in flint seem 

 to have somewhat ne- 

 glected the greensand 

 of Devonshire, and to 

 have preferred to go 

 farther afield for their 

 raw material. The 

 superior chalk flint 

 found east of Devon- 

 shire was imported into 

 Dartmoor, and was 

 largely used by its pre- 

 historic folk. 



Implements struck 

 from the nodule are 

 chisel - shaped imple- 

 ments or fabricators, 

 borers, saws, knives, 

 flakes of uncertain use, 

 a few arrow and spear 

 heads, and scrapers in 

 profusion. 



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Fig. 9. — Ruined Kist yielding Burnt Bones and Cairn No. i 

 Fernworthy (Sections) 



Graves 



We must 

 now turn to the 

 graves of this pre- 

 historic people, and describe a few examples on Dartmoor and in other parts 

 of Devonshire. Some of these are associated with menhirs. The finest 

 examples of these high standing stones are at Drizzlecombe, near Sheepstor, 

 Merivale, near Princetown, Gidleigh Common, and Langstone Moor, near 

 White Tor. Beardown Man is not associated with sepulchral remains.^ 



Fernworthy. — This very important group of antiquities (see fig. 8) consists of the stone or so- 

 called ' sacred ' circle, a cairn (No. 3) standing at the head of a short stone row running south, a 



' See note on the Stone Rows of Dartmoor, p. 372. 

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