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A Book of Dartmoor

INDEX

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Abbots' Way, 210-11.

Algeria, 36.

Amusing scene, 256.

Ancient tenements, 24.

Archerton, 27.

Archpriests, 275.

Arrow-heads, 37-8.

Asphodel, 11.

Assacombe, 163.

Aune Head, 6.

Avon River, 210-11.

Axe River, 1.

Bairdown Man, 273.

Bath huts, 46.

Batworthy, 160.

Becka Fall, 174.

Beehive huts, 213.

Bee-keeping, 13.

Bellever, 145, 223, 242, 256.

Belstone, 144-8, 156.

Bidlake, 106-7.

Birds of the moor, 251-2.

Bishop's Stone, 174.

Blachford, 217, 219.

Black Tor, 270.

Blowing-houses, 120-1, 148, 200, 215-16, 270.

Bog plants, 11-12.

Bogs, 2-11, 202.

Bovey Heathfield, 15.

Bowerman's Nose, 75.

Brent Tor, 97, 102-4.

Bridestowe, 23;

church, 138.

Bridges, 72-3, 242.

Brimpts, 25, 196.

Bronescombe's Loaf, 139-41.

Bronze implements, 15.

Brooke, Rajah, 229.

Broom, Yellow, 12.

Browne's House, 164.

Buckbean, 11.

Buckland-in-the-Moor, 194.

Bull-ring, 229.

Burglary, 263-5.

Burial alive, 174.

Burleigh Wood Camp, 104-6.

Burra Tor, 229.

Caches, 213, 230.

Cainnech, S., story of, 64-5.

Cairns, 71-2, 101, 211, 269.

Caistor Rock, 160.

Camps, 72, 82-3, 97-107, 130, 155, 162, 240.

Canoe, 15.

Castle, Lydford, 131.

Causeway, great central, 71, 170, 242.

Chagford, 157-60.

Chaw Gully, 170.

Childe the Hunter, 202-3.

Chinese, 33-5, 84.

Circles, stone, 57-9, 101, 160, 163, 164, 273.

Clakeywell Pool, 231.

Clerk, old, 125-6, 158.

Clitters, 17, 75.

Coffin-stone, 195.

Commons, 23.

Convicts, 262-3, 265-7.

Cooking-holes, 44-6, 70;

pots, 46, 70.

Cookworthy, William, 237-8.

Coral moss, 250-1.

Cosdon, 149.

Country dances, 236.

Cox Tor, 269.

Cranbrook Castle, 104, 162.

Cranmere Pool, 7, 149.

Cromlech, 55, 57, 162.

Crosses, Celtic, 42;

on Dartmoor, 65-6, 159, 203, 210-12, 236, 274.

Cuckoo, 252.

Culture, encroachment of, 26-8.

Cut Hill, 243.

Daddy longlegs, 254-5.

Damnonii, 44.

Dartmoor:

ancient inhabitants, 29-51;

antiquities, 52-73;

bogs, 2-10;

camps, 97-107;

cradle of rivers, 1;

forest, 22, 24-5, 271;

granite, 16;

lakes, 15, 16;

plants, 11-13, 19-21;

Preservation Society, 27;

salubrity of, 178-9, 259-60;

tin-streaming, 108-123;

tors, 7, 14-15, 75, et passim;

venville parishes, 22-3.

Dart River, 194-200;

East, 241;

West, 224, 256;

cry of, 235;

otter-hunting on, 224-8.

Dedication of Celtic Churches, 128-9.

Deer, 223.

Destruction of antiquities, 53-5, 162, 172, 210, 211, 228.

Dewerstone, 104, 239-40.

Dolly Trebble, 196-7.

Dolmens, 55-6.

Dolmen-builders, 36-9.

Drewsteignton cromlech, 162.

Drift, a Dartmoor, 25.

Drizzlecombe, 60, 63, 120, 236.

Druids, 80-1, 272.

Duchy, 27.

Dunnabridge Pound, 26.

Dyeing, 249.

Elford family, 221.

Epitaphs, 129-30, 193.

Erme Plains, 212;

river, 211.

Escapes of convicts, 265-7.

Exe River, 1.

Fardell, 219.

Farmhouses, 190.

Fernworthy, 163.

Fice's Well, 274.

Flint finds, 160, 243;

tools and weapons, 30, 37, 38, 45, 49.

Foale's Arrishes, 176-8.

Fordd = a road, 273.

Forest, 22, 24-5, 271.

Fox-hunting, 223.

Fox Tor Mire, 6.

Fresh air, 178.

Funeral customs, 83-96.

Fur Tor Cut, 7-8.

Furze, 12-13.

Gael, 39, 41-2.

Galford, 105-6.

Gates, how hung, 133.

Ghosts, 90-1.

Gidleigh, 162-3.

Gobbetts, 117, 203-6.

Gold, 122.

Granite, 14-16.

Greenaball, 273.

Grey Wethers, 164, 243.

Grimspound, 165-70.

Gubbinses, 134-5.

Harford church, 214.

Harter Tor, 270.

Hawns and Dendles, 217.

Heather, 276-8;

white, 162.

Hembury Castle, 104.

Hey Tor Rocks, 176.

Holne Chase, 194;

church, 193.

Hound Tor, 175.

Huccaby Bridge, 200.

Hut circles, 43-4, 66-71, 148, 168, 176, 212-13.

Idol, wooden, 15.

Inscribed stones, 142-3, 173, 219.

Iron: introduction of, 29;

smelting, 112;

smelting-houses, 194.

Ivybridge, 209.

Jack-o'-Lantern, 243-7.

Jolly Lane Cot, 200-1.

Kaolin, 237-9.

Kingset, 231.

Kingsley, Charles, 206.

King's Oven, 122.

King's Teignton, 207.

Kingston, Duchess of, 214-15.

Kistvaens, 57, 101, 149, 168, 175, 268-9.

"Lady" Darke, 183-9.

Lake-bed, 16.

Lake-head Hill, 242.

Langstone, 10, 101, 160, 274.

Laurence, Archbishop, 87.

Leather Tor, 235.

Lichens, 199, 249-50.

Lime, deficiency of, 255.

Logan rocks, 75-9, 141, 270.

Luminous moss, 19-20.

Lustleigh church, 173-4.

Lych Way, 255.

Lydford, 107, 124-32, 134-5.

Lynx Tor, 141-2.

"Maid and Lantern," ballad, 248.

Manaton, 171-2.

Marchant's Cross, 236.

Mary Tavy church, 137;

registers, 136-7.

May Day customs, 206-7.

Meavy, 236-7.

Menhirs, 62-6, 101, 149, 236, 268, 273.

Merrivale Bridge, 120, 268-9.

Mires, 6, 8.

Mistletoe, 272.

Mis Tor, 269, 273.

Murcens, 102.

Neolithic man, 31-51.

North Bovey, 172.

Nun's Cross, 230-1.

Oaks, 272.

Oghams, 219.

Okebrook, 200.

Okement River, 1;

West, 136, 138.

Otter-hunting, 224-8.

Otter River, 1.

Over Tor, 269.

Palæolithic man, 30.

Palgrave, Mr., 31.

Peat fires, 180;

works, 142.

Pebbles, 47.

Peter Tavy church, 137-8.

Petrock, S., 12, 127, 129, 214.

Phœnicians, 144-6.

Pixy Cave, 200, 221.

Plym River, 239.

Population, ancient, 48-9.

Post Bridge, 48, 241-58.

Pottery, neolithic, 30, 38, 177-8.

Pounds, 26, 48.

Prideaux, John, 214.

Prince's Hall, 27.

Princetown, 27, 259-71.

Prisoners, 261.

Prisons, 259-61.

Quarters of the Forest, 25.

Radford, Daniel, the late, 132.

Ravens, 170.

Ravine, Lydford, 134.

Redlake Mires, 7.

Redmoor Mire, 9.

Reservoir, Burra Tor, 221.

Rock basins, 78-9, 273.

Rooks, 254.

Roos Tor, 78.

Roundy Farm, 231.

Roundy Pound, 160.

Row. See Stone rows.

Salubrity of Dartmoor, 178-9, 259-60.

Samoyeds, 58-9.

Satterleigh, Sally, 201.

Scaur Hill Circle, 160.

Screens in churches, 163, 171, 172, 210, 228, 275.

Shapleigh Common, 165.

Sheeps Tor, 220-2, 228, 236.

Sherrill, 199-200.

"Silly Doe," ballad, 222.

Slade, 219.

Snaily House, 256.

Sourton Down, 142.

South Brent church, 210.

Sparrow-hawk, 254.

Staple Tor, 269.

Steeperton Tor, 146, 148.

Sticklepath, 149-50.

Stinga Tor, 141.

Stonehenge, 31, 40.

Stone rows, 60-2, 149, 160-2, 163, 176, 212, 213, 268-9.

Sundew, 11.

Sweet gale, 11-12.

Swincombe, 114-20, 203.

Tailor lost on the moor, 4-5.

Taw Marsh, 146-7.

Teign River, 160, 162, 164.

Throwleigh, 156, 163.

Tin, 22, 30;

streaming, 108-23.

Tincombe Lane, 159.

Tolmens, 79-80, 162, 269.

Tor Royal, 271.

Tors, 17-18.

Tracklines, 47, 71.

Trackway, great central, 170, 242.

Trippers, 217-18, 268.

Tristis Rock, 213.

Two Bridges, 268.

Tyrwhitt, Sir Thomas, 26, 196, 259-61, 271.

Vectis, 110.

Venville parishes, 22-3.

Vitifer, 170.

Vixen Tor, 75, 270.

Voices, strange, 232-5.

Walkham River, 269-70.

Walkhampton church, 270.

Weekes family, 151-4.

West Okement valley, 155.

West Wyke, 151.

Whitaburrow, 211.

Whitchurch, 274.

White ale, 277.

Whitmoor Stone, 149.

Whit Tor Camp, 48, 98-100.

Whortleberry, 20-1.

Widdecombe-in-the-Moor, 180-2;

Fair ballad, 190-2.

Williams, Sir Thomas, 214.

Windstrew, 220.

Wireworm, 254.

Wistman's Wood, 271-2.

Wolfram, 21.

Wren, 252-3.

Yar Tor, 199.

Yealm River, 215.

Yelverton, 220.

Yes Tor, 155.

Zeal Plains, 210.

Zeal, South, 150-1.

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