In several of the huts, in the floor, are laid flat stones with a smooth surface, and it was supposed that these served as chopping-stones, but further explorations have led to the belief that they were employed to sustain a central pole that upheld the roof. On the _col_ above Grimspound, near the source of Grimslake, is a cairn that contains a small kistvaen, and is surrounded by a circle of stones set upright. [Illustration: PLAN OF HUT III., GRIMSPOUND.] Numerous cairns crown the heights. One immense tumulus, King's Barrow, has at some unknown time been excavated with great labour. The great central trackway crosses Hamildon, and is very perfect where it does so. It had apparently no connection whatever with Grimspound. From Grimspound may be seen, on the brow of the ridge connecting Birch Tor and Challacombe Down, a series of stone rows. They lead to a blocking-stone, or menhir, at the south extremity. The northern end has been destroyed by tin-streamers, whose works in Chaw Gully are interesting, for mining has been combined with streaming. The rock has been cut through, but no signs of the use of iron wedges for splitting the granite can here be discovered. It is traditionally told that what was done was to cut a groove in the granite, fill that with quicklime, and pour water on it. The lime in swelling split the rock. Ravens nest here; and I have seen rock doves and the pair of ravens nesting almost side by side. Below is the Webburn, the stream turned up by tinners. There one mine continues in activity--the "Golden Dagger." Above is Vitifer, where fortunes have been made--and lost; mostly the latter by investors, mainly the former by the "captains" and promoters. [Illustration: NEAR MANATON] CHAPTER XII. MANATON Beauty of the site--The church--Destruction of the cross--Lustleigh Cleave--North Bovey--Lustleigh church--Prouze tombs--The sacrifice of a cat--Bishop Stapeldon's stone--Becka fall--The eastern side of the moor--Hound Tor--The sycamore--Hey Tor--Camp or pound--Rippon Tor--Foale's Arrishes--Finger-marks on pottery--Salubrity of Dartmoor--Settlers--Widdecombe in October--The church--Thunderstorm--"Lady" Darke--Old farmhouses--The Song of "Widdecombe Fair." The position of Manaton is one of remarkable beauty, between Lustleigh Cleave and the ridge on which stands Bowerman's Nose, and which swells up to Hound Tor.