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" ... of the town. A spring rising on the eastern side supplies the inclosure with water. " Many similar inclosures on a less extensive scale are found in every district of the moor. One, however, is so essentially different in construction from all the... "
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by Plymouth athenaeum - 1830
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 101

English essays - 1831 - 628 pages
...essentially different in construction from all the others, that it merits a particular description. " In a small pasture field, about a furlong SE of Manaton...four to six feet high, placed in a double row and set close together. One stone, however, is so large, that it fills the whole breadth of the fence, being...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 101, Part 1; Volume 149

Early English newspapers - 1831 - 740 pages
...essentially different in construction from all the others, that it merits a particular description. " In a small pasture field, about a furlong SE of Manaton...The stones of which the fence is composed, are from fuur tu six feet high, placed in a double row and set close together. One stone, however, is so large,...
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A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor and the Venville ...

Samuel Rowe - Dartmoor (England) - 1848 - 348 pages
...inclosure above referred to, I know but one existing specimen, observed by us, first, in the year 1828, in a small pasture field about a furlong SE of Manaton Church, and conjectured by Col. Hamilton Smith to have given the original name to the parish, Maen-y-dun, the...
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A Perambulation of the Antient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor and the Venville ...

Samuel Rowe - Dartmoor (England) - 1896 - 600 pages
...form, and in an exceedingly perfect condition. The masses of which the fence was constructed, were from four to six feet high, placed in a double row and set closely together. One stone, however, was so large that it filled the whole breadth, being six feet wide by five feet thick. The diameters...
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