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Photo Pages: Grey Wethers - Stone Circle in England in Devon
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Submitted by Anonymous on Tuesday, 17 September 2002 Page Views: 7819
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 Site Name: Grey Wethers Alternative Name: Gray Wethers
Country: England County: Devon Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Okehampton Nearest Village: Chagford
Map Ref: SX638832 Landranger Map Number: 191
Latitude: 50.632540N Longitude: 3.927216W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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Stone Circle in Devon. The walk to this double-ringed circle is long and tedious, but well worth the effort. Excavated in 1898 and restored in 1909, they contained charcoal bits throughout. Attention to detail during construction is obvious in that the circles stand almost exactly north-south of one another.
Standing 4.6m (15 feet) from one another, the north circle is 32.7m (107 feet) in diameter while the other is a mere 20cm ( 8 inches) larger. Now well restored, they were erected below the crest of north-facing slope, along a pass between two hills. Of course JJ didn't bother to walk, but flew over instead!
Access: Continue west from Fernworthy stone circle for a few hundred metres.
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 Grey Wethers submitted by caradoc68
Grey wethers is two and a half miles north of postbridge.
 Grey Wethers submitted by mattimpey
There are many fun legends concerning stone circles on dartmoor and one of the more common ones (told to me by my father) about Grey Wethers is that the stones were once sold to a drunk farmer as a well behaved flock of sheep.
 Grey Wethers submitted by mattimpey
Grey Wethers Stone Circles were restored in 1909.
I have read that an early excavation in 1898 found charcoal at the site and at the Stone Circle in Fernworthy Forest.
 Grey Wethers submitted by mattimpey
It was far to wet to take any proper photos of Grey Wether Stones Cirlces with my nice camera, these were taken on my mobile phone.
The views of the surrounding moor are well worth the hike.
 Grey Wethers submitted by mattimpey
Rather than following the long bridal path through Fernworthy Forest, I cut East through the wood and found the wooden style over the stone wall at the bottom of the dartmoor stream and hiked over the moor.
The 2 Nov 2009 was a very wet day but reaching the spectacular atmospheric double stone ring at Grey Wethers is definately worth the hike.
 Grey Wethers submitted by MikeGreen
Another day on Dartmoor
 Grey Wethers submitted by AngieLake
As the sun goes down on 13th November - Remembrance Sunday - a shadow of one grateful post-war baby appears on the square stone at the west side of the north circle of Grey Wethers.
 Grey Wethers submitted by AngieLake
The outline of Cosdon Hill (550m), almost due north of Grey Wethers, is occasionally brought into sharp focus by the effect of light and shade. This pic, taken from the middle of Grey Wethers' 'south' circle, shows how its great, looming, smoothly-shaped, Mother Earth 'breast' image seems to act as a focal point for the two circles as it dominates the northern horizon.
 Grey Wethers submitted by AngieLake
This is the other anvil-shaped stone at Grey Wethers. This one is to the right of the southern 'entrance' to the northern circle. Here we're looking just east of north.
 Grey Wethers submitted by AngieLake
This is the anvil-shaped stone that stands at the east side of the south circle at Grey Wethers -viewed from inside and outside of the circle.
 Grey Wethers submitted by AngieLake
The top photo shows three striking stone shapes, from left: JackME's 'moon' shape (a crescent-shaped chunk seemingly tooled away on one side), a diamond shape, and a square shape. There were also anvil-shaped stones in both circles. This is the north circle, with the stones' west faces in sun (above) and east faces in shadow below.
 Grey Wethers submitted by hamish
This is the arcs of the circles looking south.
 Grey Wethers submitted by hamish
This is the arcs of the two circles looking north.
 Grey Wethers submitted by hamish
From some angles it just looks like jumble of stones, but soon it sorts out into order.
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Re: Grey Wethers (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Tuesday, 04 February 2003 | In 1992, I parked up near this circle and walked, with no idea what was out there, straight to these circles. The intuition that led us there made me feel this was the stones calling me there, and this place has remained sacred ever since. Incredible to see it brought to life again, great photo. jakeandlou555@chumbawala555.fsnet.co.uk
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Re: Grey Wethers (Score: 1)
by hamish on Monday, 14 November 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | | The day we went to Grey Wethers was a little cold but dry. We got to Froggy Mead and took a turn on the left which eventually led us to a ladder stile over a wall. Here it was rather boggy and we were not sure where we were. We struck out up the valley and to the right, after a hard walk we eventually saw the circles in the distance. What a great place this is and what an atmosphere. I have been to some evocative places in my life but this takes a very high place on my list. We will come here again, even though we got lost in Fernworthy Forest and finally got back to the car in the dark. Wonderful Bright moon that evening. | [ Reply to This ]
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