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Grey Wethers

Near Postbridge, Dartmoor

Twin stone circles once sold to a stranger as a flock of sheep.

Grey Wethers is a pair of stone circles side by side on a lonely stretch of Dartmoor. A wether is a castrated ram, and from a distance the grey stones look just like a grazing flock.

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When
Bronze Age
Where
50.6111, -3.9378
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

Open moorland. A long walk from Postbridge; take a map.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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