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Brent Tor (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork)

In the DARTMOOR MAGAZINE 2003 Summer Edition you can read a good article by Tom Greeves " Was Brent Tor a dark age centre" with the usual stuff diagrams/photo's and a decent enough history of the settlement, although for me it doesn't go far enough.

Down Tor (Stone Row / Alignment)

would this Circle and Row, be similar to the one's mentioned in Uriel's Machine (The Prehistoric Technology that Survived the Flood) by Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas, and would anyone check it out on the Summer and Winter Solstice (while i stay in bed) and every month after plant wooden posts in the ground (take them up again) to see if you can measure the months.
i am a 53 year old anorak who enjoys walking the moors with my spaniel Jack, i have become interested in things Pre-History through my enjoyment of walking on the moors and seeing the remains of the Neolithic and Bronze age Circles/Cists/Rows and so forth, and thinking WOW, some man-hours put into these

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