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which they belong. They were occupied by the Neolithic population that at one time thickly covered Dartmoor.
In the Archæologia of 1875 is an account of the
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exploration of a set of hut circles near Bintley, Northumberland, and this revealed successive occupation by Celts (?) of the Bronze Age; then Romano-British, who left fragments of Samian ware and a