POST BRIDGE Clapper Bridge nr Moretonhampstead, Devon HEW 637 SX648 788 N50o 35’ 39.1” W3o 54’ 41.0”
This ancient bridge of huge boulders and stones (‘clapper’ means piled stones in Old Anglo Saxon) crosses the River Dart on the south side of B3212 on Dartmoor. Its age may be as old as the Bronze Age but it is more likely to date from the 1300’s it is thought today. It has no mortar: the piers are piled stones and the decking is large slabs of roughly dressed stones about one foot thick and about 8 feet wide.