Derivation of the name--Phoenicians--Taw Marsh--Artillery practice on the moors--Encroachments--The East Okement--Pounds and hut circles--Stone rows on Cosdon--Cranmere Pool--Sticklepath--Christian inscribed stones--South Zeal--West Wyke--North Wyke--The wicked Richard Weekes--South Tawton church--The West Okement--Yes Tor--Camp and Roman road--Throwleigh. A good deal of pseudo-antiquarianism has been expressed relative to the name of a little moorland parish two and a half miles uphill from Okehampton. It is now called Belstone, and it has been surmised that here stood a stone dedicated to Baal, whose worship had been introduced by the Phœnicians. I must really quote one of the finest specimens of "exquisite fooling" I have ever come across. It appeared as a sub-article in the _Western Morning News_ in 1890. It was headed:-- "PHŒNICIANS IN DART VALE. "[SPECIAL.] "Much interest, not only local but world-wide, was aroused a few months back by the announcement of a Phœnician survival at Ipplepen, in the person of Mr. Thomas Ballhatchet, descendant of the priest of the Sun Temple there, and until lately owner of the plot of land called Baalford, under Baal Tor, a priestly patrimony, which had come down to him through some eighteen or twenty centuries, together with his name and his marked Levantine features and characteristics. "Such survivals are not infrequent among Orientals, as, for instance, the Cohens, Aaron's family, the Bengal Brahmins, the Rechabites, etc. Ballhatchet's sole peculiarity is his holding on to the land, in which, however, he is kept in countenance in England by the Purkises, who drew the body of Rufus to its grave in Winchester Cathedral on 2nd August, 1100.