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Grimspound

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Grimspound

Bronze Age stronghold near Hamilton Ridge on Dartmoor, Devon, England. The settlement consists of 20 stone huts surrounded by a stone wall about 1.5 m/5 ft high, and is unusual for the strength of its fortifications.



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It was within the little village of Grimspound that Sherlock Holmes found himself investigating the hound of the Baskervilles.
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