Dartmoor Pound
The Dartmoor Pounds are around 30 , mostly round, partly angular stone walls of up to four hectares in the English hilly landscape of Dartmoor in the county of Devon, which can be dated back to the Bronze Age .
There are different and unsubstantiated interpretations about their purpose:
- Settlement (unknown function),
- Cattle kraal
- Space for grain processing (with kilns missing),
Normally, the round, but also angular stone walls in such a region would be related to the livestock farming that took place there at some point. Around 1404, however, the region's annals still speak of a Dartmoor Forest, which is not necessarily associated with livestock farming.
Some explored are Dunnabridge Pound , Erme Pound, Grimspound , Kes Tor Round Pound and Lough Tor Pound .
literature
- Richard Hansforth Worth: The Prehistoric Pounds of Dartmoor . Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art 1943.