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Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute at Exeter: places to be visited, 1873. Creator: Unknown.

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Meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute at Exeter: places to be visited, 1873. 'Spinster's Rock, Cromlech; Powderham Castle [seat of the Earl of Devon]; Rougemont Castle, Exeter [built by William the Conqueror]; Ottery St. Mary's Church [collegiate church of St. Mary and St. Edward, built...from 1257 to 1340]; Roundtor; Kent's Hole, Torquay [famous limestone cavern in which were found the bones of the elephant, rhinoceros, lion, wolf, bear, and hyaena]; Dartmoor; Dartmouth Castle & Church; Widdecombe-in-the-Moor [with its tall Perpendicular church]; Compton Castle, Torquay [a seat of the Pole family]; Berry, Pomeroy Castle...One of the most interesting places on the South Devon coast is Dartmouth, which has a picturesque site on the steep hill overlooking a landlocked harbour or estuary, one of the greatest naval ports of England in the times of our Plantagenet Kings...Dartmoor [is a] great wilderness of granite rocks and barren heath in the interior of Devon...Its "tors" or projecting crags, on the summit of every rising ground, and its curious artificial combinations of huge blocks of stone, as in the cromlech called the Spinster's Rock, ascribed to the Druids or some Celtic agents, give this region a very weird aspect'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.

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