Southerly Down, Devon

King Wall

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Generally associated with Charles I, and explained at http://www.dartmoorcam.co.uk/CAM/previouswalks/2010-12-15_KingWallCross/KingWallCross.htm as a "corn-ditch with a steep wall and ditch on the outside (Royal Forest side) to prevent the king's deer from entering the enclosed farm land with its crops and with a built-up inner side to help the deer escape back onto the open moor." This is also the location of the newly-discovered cross described on the same page.

Uploaded to Geograph by Derek Harper on 24 June 2014

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