Unfamiliar Words

When describing artifacts on Dartmoor there are some terms that not everybody will have come across, although these are explained in the book they have been gathered here for convenience.

Adit
Horizontal entrance to a mine.

Blowing house
Building used to smelt tin.

Bondstone
A stone that extends through an entire wall's width to lock it together.

Clapper Bridge
Bridge formed by large flat slabs of stone.

Cleave
Steep valley.

Clitter
Debris of what was formerly the higher part of a tor.

Cruck
Curved timber supporting a roof.

Gert
Deep open tin working.

Greensward
Areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses.

Impost
Block upon which an arch rests.

Kistvaen
Bronze Age burial tomb.

Logan stone
A rock balanced on a point which can be set in motion.

Reave
Bronze Age long, generally straight, stone boundary wall.

Staddle stone
Mushroom shaped stones used to raise granaries off the ground.

Tolmen
Stone with a hole