Reaves and cairns and midges too

North Hill, Cornwall Ancient boundaries cross the moor, a stone row linking Fox Tor with a hill crowned in ring cairns

Beneath the eastern flank of Bodmin Moor, the sunken lane from Tolcarne is strewn with hazelnuts. Sun dapples the shady bedrock, ferns and mosses, and midges spiral in shafts of light.

From the hillside, where abandoned settlements and enclosures are masked by patches of bracken and gorse, the vista widens and extends across the Lynher and Tamar valleys towards the blue skyline of Dartmoor.