Tablets of Stone

The main blip is of Buckland Beacon, and in the foreground the Ten Commandment Stones. These large slabs of granite, inscribed with the Ten Commandments (which can be read in “large”), were commissioned in 1928 by William Whitley, Lord of the Manor of Buckland, to celebrate the rejection by Parliament of a controversial revision to the Book of Common Prayer.

A day of Tors and prehistoric sites. The extra is the late Bronze Age settlement site of Grimspound, viewed as I climbed up to Hookney Tor. There are the remains of 24 stone roundhouses - constructed between 1450 and 700 BC - surrounded by a massive 150 metre diameter boundary wall. In the mist, the place is bleakly atmospheric. The only inhabitants today were a family of wheatears (extra)