Grimspound.
"This is an enclosure, prehistoric, on the slope
between Hookner Tor and Hameldon.
The circumference wall measures over 1500 feet,
and was not for defence against human foes, but
served as a protection against wolves. Grimslake,
a small stream that dries up only in very hot
summers, flows through the enclosure at its northern
extremity. It passes under the wall, percolates
through it for some way, and then emerges three-
quarters of the way down.
The pound was constructed where it is for two
reasons : one, to take advantage of the outcrop of
granite that divides the waterways, and which was
largely exploited for the construction of the en-
closure wall and of the huts within ; and the other,
so as to have the advantage of the stream flowing
through the pound."
Extract from "A book of the west" (Open Library)
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