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Abbreviations
Arch J

BR

 
Bate
 
Bray
 .
Breton

Butler
 
Burnard

Byng
.
Carrington
 .
Chapple

Croker
 
Crossing
 
DASP
 
D & S
 
E, W, N, S

 GR
 
JRT
 
LVG
 .
NMR
 
Ormerod
 
OS
 .
Page

Pettit
 
PPS
 
RCHM
 
RDEC
 
RHW
 
RNW
 
Rowe
 
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SMR
 
Shortt
 
TAPG
 
TDA
 
TPI

Archeological Journal.

Barrow Reports. These were mostly in the TDA from 1879 to 1958, but some early ones in TPI. A lot of this information was reprinted in RH Worth  "Dartmoor", 1953.

Spence Bate TDA 1872.
 
Mrs Bray "The Borders of Tamar and Tavy" 1879 

Hugh Breton "Beautiful Dartmoor", "Heart of Dartmoor" & "Forest of Dartmoor".

Jeremy Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, 1991 - 7.
 
Robert Burnard "Dartmoor Pictorial Records" 1890-94, reprinted by Devon Books 1986.

Brian Byng "Dartmoor's Mysterious Megaliths" 1979

N.T. Carrington "Dartmoor, A Descriptive Poem" 1926

JW Chapple "Description and Exegesis of Drewsteignton Cromlech 1779".
 
JG Croker, "The Eastern Escarpment of Dartmoor", 1851.
 
"Guide to Dartmoor."
 
Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings.

Davidson &  Seabrook, DASP Vol 31, 1973, p22ff.

East, West, North & South.

National Grid Reference, mostly 8 figure, but sometimes 6 or 4.

JR Turner DASP Vol 48 1990, p27ff.
 
LV Grinsell DASP Vol 36 1978, p85ff

National Monuments Register, Swindon

GW Ormerod "Notes on Rude Stone Monuments on the Easterly side of Dartmoor", 1876.
 
Ordnance Survey

J.Ll.W. Page "An Exploration of Dartmoor." 1895 (4th Edition)

Paul Pettit "Prehistoric Dartmoor", David & Charles 1974.

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society.

Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments.
 
Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee, in TDA.
 
Richard Hansworth Worth.
 
Richard Norris Worth.
 
Samuel Rowe "A Perambulation of Dartmoor". 1848, reprinted 1893. Numbers are page numbers, with bracketed ones to the 1893 edition.
 
Sites and Monuments Register, Exeter.

W.T.P. Shortt "Collectanea Curiosa Antiqua Dumnonia" Exeter 1841.
 
Dr Tom Greeves, in SMR, or private communication.
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Transactions of the Devonshire Association.
 
Transactions of the Plymouth Institute.
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