# A Book of Dartmoor/Index

INDEX
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.
Bat worthy, 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, 215-216, 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.
Glitters, 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.