In this blog on the landscape of Cudlip, I explain my inspiration for wanting to explore the deep pastoral history of this place and its connection to women and dairying. This first blog sets the scene for more writing to come, exploring different stages of this landscape’s pastoral past from the Neolithic to the present, and all the incredible folklore, ritual and butter-making practice that brings alive this landscape of cows and maids.
Category: <span>Archaeology</span>
With my recent contemplations of the river Tavy in the context of the history of British rivers, I began wondering what all this meant for the stages of development of the town of Tavistock. In this blog I use a hydrological perspective to explore, what I hope is an informed speculation, that the original Saxon abbey may not lie under the remains of the abbey as we see them today, but on slightly higher ground north of the floodplain.
Shilstone – a modest place of not-so-very-much on first appearance. Yet, by looking closer, it is an intriguing location – a microcosm of Dartmoor history.
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