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boulder descends into a gallery, which runs eastward, with a 
shorter branch in a northerly direction. The total length is 
twenty-two feet six inches. The greatest width is fourteen feet, 
whilst the inner recess is six and a half feet wide. The height 
from floor to roof is five feet. The entrance is three feet six 
inches high with a width of three feet. This cave is dry, and 
would make a capital storehouse and occasional shelter. 
Deancombehead North Cave. 
Both the East and West Glaze have been extensively streamed. 
Just above Glaze Meet, where these two streams unite, is a 
remnant of an ancient wall, and a little further on in the 
plantation are two heaps of moss-covered stones which appear 
to indicate the sites of old buildings. They may have been 
connected with the "old men's" workings, but there is nothing 
characteristic about them to settle this point. At this place a 
moorland trackway leads across the brook over a carefully-paved 
ford, taking an eastward direction towards the Avon. Another 
well-worn path, suitable for packhorses, follows the East Glaze 
up to Three Barrow Tor, and can be traced to Eastern White- 
burgh. This, with the numerous hut circles near, indicates that 
at some period it was a well-frequented district. 
