Dartmoor
Baring-Gould along with his friend Robert Burnard organised the first scientific archaeological excavations of hut-circles on Dartmoor at Grimspound during 1893. This resulted in the formation of the Committee of the Devonshire Association for the exploration of Dartmoor. The Committee co-opted Mr. R. N. Worth, Mr. R. Hansford Worth, Rev. W. A. G. Gray, and Dr. Prowse. Baring-Gould was the Secretary and author of the first ten annual reports until 1905. The Dartmoor Exploration Committee performed many archaeological digs of prehistoric settlements on Dartmoor and systematically recorded and in some cases restored prehistoric sites. The current state of many prehistoric stone rows and stone circles on Dartmoor owes much to the work of Sabine Baring-Gould and Robert Burnard and the Dartmoor Exploration Committee. Baring-Gould was President of the Devonshire Association for the year 1896.
He wrote much about Dartmoor: his works of this topic include:
- Dartmoor idylls (1896).
- A Book of Dartmoor (1906). London : Methuen, 1900. Republished Halsgrove, 2002
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