Index

to

Dartmoor Stone Implements and Weapons

by

R. Burnard

Trans. Devon. Assoc. Vol. XXIX. (1897), plates, pp. 378-385.

Prepared by Michael Steer

This beautifully illustrated Paper was presented at the Association’s July 1897 Kingsbridge meeting. It provides for the genealogist, a wealth of names and places associated with the earliest research into our county’s extraordinary prehistory. There is much evidence that a stone-using people once inhabited Dartmoor, since the Moor’s surface and sub-surface, have yielded large quantities of flint ‘spalls’, among which cores, flakes, implements, and weapons exist in considerable number. The present account deals principally with important archaeological finds made at Post Bridge, Brownberry, and Huccaby. The author, Robert Burnard was an eminent writer and photographer who established the Dartmoor Preservation Association (DPA) in 1883. In 1887 he published his first paper on Dartmoor’s antiquities. A potted biography with portrait is available at the Dartmoor Explorations webpage. 
The Paper, from a copy of a rare journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. Those on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.