Posts Tagged ‘brackenmanagement’
Archeology Maintenance at High House Waste
In mid-July a team of DPA volunteers headed up to High House Waste to do some essential maintenance on the archaeology around the Farmstead. The site is rich in traces of human activity, including Bronze Age reaves (land boundaries), abandoned longhouses, a Bronze Age settlement, extensive field-systems and areas of possible mediaeval tin-streaming. A stand…
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Fourteen volunteers from the Dartmoor Preservation Association were joined by twenty volunteers from the Devon Wildlife Trust to rake up the bracken from the DPA’s four flower meadows at Pudsham. The bracken had been cut with strimmers two weeks before, as part of the regime of tending the fields, where earlier in the year several…
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