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Innumerable relics on Dartmoor -- Small in size -- Great / destruction of them that has taken place -- Lake-head Hill thus / devastated -- Classification of the remains -- 1. The dolmen, an / ossuary -- 2. The kistvaen -- Great numbers, all rifled -- 3. The stone / circle -- possibly a crematorium -- 4. The stone row -- Astonishing / numbers still existing -- 5. The menhir -- In Christian times becomes / a cross -- Story of S. Cainnech -- Dartmoor crosses -- Altar tombs -- 6. / Hut circles -- All belong to one period -- 7. The tracklines -- 8. The / pounds -- 9. The cairns -- 10. The camps -- 11. Rude stone bridges, / comparatively modern.
As already intimated, the antiquities found on Dartmoor belong almost exclusively to the Prehistoric Period. The few exceptions are the crosses and the blowing-houses. These shall be spoken of in other chapters. In this we will confine ourselves to a general review of the relics left to show how that the moor was occupied by a large population in the early Bronze Period.