Yellowmead Stone Circles, Dartmoor, Devon SX575678
Visited Friday, 4th June 2004
What an amazing site this is. On gently sloping hillside facing Sheepstor from the southeast can be found this tremendous fourfold stone circle, marked as Cairn circles on the OS map, about 20 minutes boggy walk from parking near what is known as the Scout Hut.
The site consists of four approximately concentric circles of stones, with several more stones arranged around the western circumference, which are possibly remnants of a series of rows that radiated outwards downhill from the circles. The innermost circle is about 6 metres in diameter, and made from nice slabs set closely to each other. The outer circles are made from slabs of varying size, with diameters increasing by about 5 metres a time. Some of the stones in the outer circle are very big by comparison to the majority. I found it almost impossible to get any photographs which do any justice to this site. A challenge set to you photographers out there.
A short distance uphill to the northeast from these circles is the remains of a small cairn, with a surrounding ring of stones.
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