Editing Sabine Baring-Gould (section)

==Dartmoor==
Baring-Gould, along with his friend Robert Burnard, organised the first scientific archaeological excavations of hut-circles on [[Dartmoor]] at [[Grimspound]] during 1893. They then asked [[Richard Nicholls Worth|R. N. Worth]], [[Richard Hansford Worth|R. Hansford Worth]], W. A. G. Gray and a Dr Prowse to assist them with further investigations. This resulted in the formation of the Committee of the Devonshire Association for the exploration of [[Dartmoor]].<ref>{{cite journal| title=The Exploration of Grimspound – First report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee| journal =Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association | volume= 26 | year= 1894 |  pages = 101–21 | url = https://archive.org/stream/reportandtransa00artgoog#page/n106/mode/2up | access-date  = 16 December 2016}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite journal | journal = Report & Transactions of the Devonshire Association| title = Report of the Council | volume= 28 | year =1896 | pages = 18 | url = https://archive.org/stream/reportandtransa02artgoog#page/n24/mode/2up| access-date  = 16 December 2016}}</ref>

He wrote much about Dartmoor: his works of this topic include:
* ''Dartmoor idylls'' (1896)
* ''A Book of Dartmoor'' (1900), London : Methuen, 1900. Republished Halsgrove, 2002