Hi Dok,

After my travels I've written the odd notes on the following.....

Scorhill - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/19

The Shovel Down complex - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/20

Fernworthy - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/15

The Greyweathers - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/301

I've mainly stayed in Cornwall, so my Dartmoor visiting has been more than patchy. The most interesting and useful advice I've heard so far about White Moor is the following from Burl's 'A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland & Brittany', which writes "…from whichever direction it is approached, take care over the morass of Raybarrow Pool, ½ mile long, ¼ mile wide, SX640905 to SX638894, a nuisance in dry weather, positively dangerous in wet, 'an extensive mire' wrote William Crossing, a veteran of Dartmoor, 'one of the worst in the moorland region' ".

I haven't been to that part of Dartmoor so what do <i>I</i> know? But on the os map White Moor is right next to a bridleway, so <i>as long as you stay on the path</i> maybe nothing will happen to you. I refer you An American Werewolf in London for more instructions.

Don't know if it's related, but last year, on a visit to the Nine Maidens, we tried following a path, only to get scratched to bits on the undergrowth while tripping up on unseen rocks and holes.

We bumped into someone at the circle itself who told us the paths are often changed to stop erosion, etc - which I s'pose I was aware of, but didn't expect it to be so dramatically! I thought a path may have bee cut NEAR it or something, but no. No path at all was what we found.

So maybe these paths mentioned on this thread had been deliberately overgrown at each occasion.

Or it could have been the beasties..?

Who knows. Just telling you what you already know. As usual.

G x