ABSTRACT
When we walk the moors, our eyes lift to the high tors and, at some point or another, it seems important to clamber up the slopes, to stop and to look up at the astonishing rock formations and out across the landscape. Most times, the feeling is of awe and wonderment, of ‘uplift’. And it is easy to imagine that other people, over the millennia, have done the same. At Rough Tor and the other high places, people have not just stopped and paused, they have stayed and built monuments. It may be the Bronze Age cairns or walls that encircle the tors, or the enclosures that link tor to tor, or it may be a small medieval chapel, or a Second World War memorial plaque. They left their mark.
