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Whilst on the subject...I recently picked up a book in my local charity shop called "Dartmoor's Mysterious Megaliths" bu Brian Byng. It contains a section on Merrivale, lots about diagrams about sun and moon settings and rises and many black and white drawings of dartmoor sites.

One such is Yellowmead Fourfold Circle. I see Goffic has recently visited, is it the site marked on the OS map as Cairn Circles? If so I think a visit is in order. I know the area quite well having done a bit of climbing on Sharptor when I was of lighter frame! Time to revisit.

What other sites in the Sheepstor, Burrator area should I visit? so many marked on the map.

Yep indeedy-do! Yellowmead is the so-called "cairn circle" marked on the map... bit misleading, I suppose, but then there's a circle in Cornwall that is SO OBVIOUSLY a stone circle, and is marked on the Explorer map as fkn "tumuli"!!! (And, sweet christ, I can't remember for the life of me where it is now! I'll have a search back through me holiday snaps....)

I'm gonna go and have a proper look at the area one day... looks like there's plenty to see and the surroundings are fabulous. We set off from Yellowmead to <a href="http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/1371">Drizlecombe</a> but it was getting late and we were still about a million miles from home so we went back to the car. :(

Dartmoor is beautiful.

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