EARLY MAN 



HuNTSHAW, NEAR Great Torrington. — A bronze dagger found in a barrow with burnt 

 bones, ashes, and charcoal.'- (See fig. 19 and fig. i on same). 



Farway Castle, near Honiton. — A palstave was picked up in this immediate vicinity. 

 Other examples have also occurred at Morebarton, in a field near Subhill between Clyst 

 St. Lawrence and Rockbeare, at Chagford, Drewsteignton, and at Rumby, Bovey Tracey. 



Honiton. — A socketed celt is recorded as having been found here.^ 



Hennnock, near Chudleigh. — Moulds for bronze castings have also been found in Devonshire. 

 Two are figured by Evans ' which were found in this parish ; they are of a light greenish micaceous 

 schist. One mould is a trifle over 2 ft. in length and 3 in. wide — the other 2i|^in. long and the 

 same width. These moulds produced castings of rapier-shaped blades. 



Lovehayne Farm, Colyton. — A large number of celts and spear-heads 'half filling a 

 wheelbarrow' were found by road-makers in removing a cairn in 1770. The bulk of these 

 were sold as old metal in the neighbouring town of Honiton. One celt from this find, a 

 palstave, was in existence in 1868, and is figured in Tram. Devon. Assoc, ii, 647. (See fig. 19 

 and fig. 4 on same). 



Plymstock. — In 1868 there was a remarkable discovery of bronze implements here consisting 

 of sixteen celts, a spear-head or dagger,* and a narrow chisel. They lay beneath a flat stone at a 

 depth of about 2 ft. below the surface. The celts were of the flat and flanged variety ; the 

 chisel was 4 in. long with a cutting edge of \ in. square in section in the upper part, and gradually 

 tapering to an edge at the lower end.° 



Plymouth. — In the early part of 1884 a perfect and an imperfect palstave, together with a 

 celt with a square socket, were found on removing an old hedge at Torr Lane. 



White Tor. — This (perhaps more generally known as Whittor) is a fine tor, 1,526 ft. 

 above the level of the sea, on Cudlipptown Down, overlooking Marytavy and Petertavy. The 

 summit of the tor is surrounded by the ruins of two walls with a space between of about 10 ft. or 

 more in places. Both the walls appear to have been 10 to 11 ft. thick, and judging from the debris 

 the inner wall must have been about 4 to 4^ ft. high, whilst the outer reached a height of 6 to 

 7 ft. The area enclosed is i^ acres. 



The supposed entrances are to the east, where access is easy. The other approaches to the 

 summit of the tor are steep and covered with ' clatters ' of rock. Within the enclosure are the 

 remains of half a dozen hut circles or huts of a semi-circular character, which were built up under 

 the lee of large boulders of igneous rock. These and other portions of the enclosure were explored 

 in 1898 and yielded charcoal, a little hand-made pottery, a flint scraper, a trimmed flake which 

 might have served as an arrow-point, and a great number of chips. These chips occur under the 

 turf surface all over the enclosure. 



The large cairn was explored right down to the surface on which it stands, and this also was 

 dug into in search of a possible interment, but nothing was found except two small flint flakes. No 

 charcoal was seen and nothing to indicate the use of this great heap of stones, amounting to 

 hundreds of cartloads. All the stones are of handy size, and it has been suggested that they 

 may have been intended for use as missiles or for repairing the walls of the enclosure. The 

 summit of the cairn, which is about 10 ft. high, has never been used as a beacon — for, as pre- 

 viously stated, not a trace of charcoal was noticed in the exploration. There is no trace of 

 water within the protecting walls, nor is there any now available within a distance of several 

 hundred yards. 



The exploration yielded no sign of the place having been assailed or occupied by a fighting 

 force, for no weapons, with one doubtful exception, or sling-stones were observed. 



There was just enough evidence found to indicate that this defensive place apparently 

 appertained to the same period as the hut circles, the potsherds and the prevalence of flint chips 

 being the principal evidence. 



Cranbrook Castle. — Excavations were made in many places on this site, including the moat, 

 south-west, and south, and rendered many sling-stones and large pieces of charred wood ; in many 

 other trenches no results were obtained. The principal finds were in excavations numbered i, 2, 



3, and 4. 



At No. I the site of a hut or dwelling of some kind was found, and this yielded, about i ft. 

 below the grass surface (the soil at Cranbrook is very shallow), some small fragments of pottery, 

 and the bottom stone of a granite quern 13 in. in diameter with a central hole of 2 in. in diameter. 

 There was much wood charcoal, and two fire-holes were observed. 



At No. 2 another site of a dwelling or shelter was opened out — this also had a fire-hole 

 scooped out of the sub-soil. There was a good deal of charcoal strewn over the site, and some pot- 

 sherds also were found. 



■ Trans. Devon. Assoc, vii, 102-5. ' Evans, Bronze Imp., Trans. Devon. Assoc, iv, 298-9. 



' Ibid. 434. * ^'''^- Joum. xxvi. ' Evans, Bron-ze Imp. 165-6. 



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