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Grey Wethers OSGR SX 63870 83139 

Comments
Two circles,  with centres oriented nearly N/S.

References
TPI VI (1848) 182-3.
​Dartmoor Sketches (1870?) p14
R. Burnard. Dartmoor Pictorial Records II (1891) 49-54.
T.A. Falcon. Dartmoor Illustrated (1900) xvii, Pl 26. 
W. Crossing. Guide to Dartmoor (1912)
TDA LXXI (1939) 325-328.
R.H. Worth. Dartmoor (1953) 258-260. 
P.  Pettit. Prehistoric Dartmoor (1974) 141-2.E. Hemery. High Dartmoor (1983) 767-8.
E. Hemery. High Dartmoor (1983)J.R. Turner.  DASP 48 (1990) 80.
J.Butler. Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities II  35.16 (1991) 136-7, 164-5, 232; V (1997) 146-7, 152-4, 282.
A Burl A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany ​60-61.
G.A.M. Gerrard. Dartmoor (1997) 61-2.
P. Newman The Field  Archaeology of Dartmoor (2011) 34.
Dave Parks Prehistoric Dartmoor  Walks, stone circles, & Turner.
Dartmoor News 134 (September/October 2013) p30-34 and 140 (September/October 2014) 
Legendary Dartmoor See also:- http://www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk/grey_wethers.htm
Megalithic Portal

HER/SMR number 6758  SX 68 SW/16 and 6759  SX 68 SW/17
NMR number 443916 SX  68 SW 1

Maps of the area can be found in Turner (1990) p61, & Butler  (1991), pp135 & 137.
Plans of the circles can be found in Burnard II  (1891) p52-3,TDA LXXI (1939)
Fig 7, p327, Worth Dartmoor (1953)  Fig 84, p259, Gerrard (1997) p62, & Newman (2011) p34.
Photographs of  the circles may be found in Burnard II (1891) opp p51, Falcon Pl 26, Butler  (1991) p136, Burl Prehistoric Stone
Circles
Shire 1983, Pl 11, &  Newman (2011) p35.
An old photograph is in TAP Greeves Images of England  - Dartmoor (2004) p125. 



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