Dartmoor CAM

This walk: 2010-5-2. High House Waste, Dog violet, lichens, mosses, clapper bridge, dry leat, Dendles Waste, hut circles, enclosures, fungi, grasses, tormentil, bronze age sofa (!), bluebells, Dor beetle, marsh violet, sundew.

Walk details below - Information about the route etc.

Common Dog Violet - Viola palustris ..... (pale petals, stripes not on white background contrasting with the lower part of the lip, upper petals bent back...., leaves rounded rather than with a point).

..... white variant ......

Dog Violet leaves.

Lichen - believed Cladonia arbuscula or C. portentosa.

As previous photo, growing with an unidentified moss, on the stone wall at the north-east corner of High House Waste.

Unidentified moss (of many colours) and a grey crustose lichen.

Clapper bridge over the dry leat at SX 60658 62973.

Looking at the irregular wall at the north edge of High House Waste and across to Dendles Waste. The wall is built on an old reave.

Looking over the north wall to the extensive tin workings going up Broadall Lake.

Detail of the wall of a roundhouse (hut circle), showing it to be of the double-orthostat type i.e. two circles of large stones infilled with smaller stones and rubble .....