Dunnabridge Pound
Dunnabridge Pound near the B3757 road at Dartmeet in Dartmoor National Park in Devon , England, is one of the 30 or so Dartmoor Pounds that can possibly be dated back to the Bronze Age . The location of the 2.25 acre Dunnabridge Pound southwest of Laughter Tor with the Laughter Man Menhir and its broken stone rows is interesting as it could have been the center of a community.
Next to the entrance on the street is a megalithic structure known as "The Judge's Chair" ( German for "the judge's chair" ). It consists of a 1.8 m high and 2.4 m long trilith , which is the remainder of a megalithic complex integrated into the pound.
J. Butler believes that today's structure is exactly the same as that of the Bronze Age. However, constant use over the centuries has resulted in virtually all prehistoric features being wiped out. But there are traces of two huts and some walls in the enclosure.
According to JE B Gover, the earliest written record of Dunnabridge appears in a document of the Duchy of Cornwall from 1305, where it is called Donebrigge ( German "Lower Bridge" ) over the River Dart. Dunnabridge Pound is drawn on Benjamin Donn's 1765 map. Although it shows the two bridges on Moretonhampstead Road, there are none on Pound at the time. Pastor John Swete first described the pound in 1798 and made a sketch of the Judge's Chair.
literature
- Jeremy Butler: Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities. Vol. II, Devon Books Exeter 1991.
- William Crossing: Folklore and Legends of Dartmoor. Forest Publishing, 1997 Liverton.
- John Eric Bruce Gover, A. Mawer, FM Stenton: The Place Names of Devon. English Place-Name Society, Nottingham 1992.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dartmoor Pounds are mostly round stone walls up to four hectares in size
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Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 19.6 " N , 3 ° 54 ′ 46" W.