Lower White Tor

Burnard described this photograph taken on 22 April 1889 as "Little White Tor - point where Great Central Trackway is merged in Tor". The modern name for the tor is Lower White Tor. Crossing on page 32 of his 'Guide to Dartmoor'' provides a trenchant argument that what Burnard calls the Great Central Trackway is actually a reave. Reaves are banks of earth and stone that often run across the moor for many miles. They are considered to have been constructed during the Bronze Age (1500 - 800 BC) as boundary markers. The reave runs from the north-west of Postbridge to Lower White Tor and is described on the Ordnance Survey map as a 'Boundary Work'.