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This is the best of the seven houses and the only one visible from the road, if your not too eager to get to the stone circles further on.

Whats this then?

Four or five out of the seven houses are cleared of vegetation and the grass kept trimmed short. They could have taken the cuttings with them though, I had to clean all the stones.

I get the feeling that some stone circle enthusiasts wouldn’t bother with a lowly hut circle, but this is really an exceptional place.

The best house is just the other side of the small field beyond the house in the foreground.

Between this hut and the dark trees is a track, 50 yards left are three more huts.

See the stones by the tree in the right background, another hut circle.

Four hut circles here all in a sort of row, I’m sure you cant see them, you’ll just have to go.

The stones beyond the obvious hut circle in the foreground is also a hut, and the least of the bunch is just beyond that.

The stones beyond the obvious hut circle in the foreground is also a hut, and the least of the bunch is just beyond that.

Not a very photogenic hut circle, but better than the next one.

Of the seven houses I was able to locate this was the last and the least.

Looking north, the stone row with a cairn at the end is just over the circle.

The cairn circle, four times I’ve been here and not really noticed it before, it is at the end of the row that leads right off the track, I thought the stone circle was at the end of the row, not this barely visible little cairn circle. Hats off to the forestry people for keeping the place ultra tidy.

Looking east over the circle, the grassy path beyond leads to a little cairn circle, of which there is three or four or five.

Dont remember ever seeing this before either, clearly a cairn, with half a cist.

Yet another cairn emerges from the very short grass

Looking down to the remnant cairn circle

The cairn circle at the end of the north row.

Looking over the cairn circle up the stone row towards the stone circle.

Looking down the stoneless end of the row at the cairn circle.

Looking up the stone row towards the stone circle.

This standing stone marks the location of the circle, I think it’s an old gatepost as it’s in a old low wall, but it could have been an outlier pointing out the winter solstice? it’s the same size as the circle stones.

The southeast arc

Looking across the circle to Sittaford Tor.

Two stones and two stone holes? I think they could still be in there under the water and muck of ages, anyone know for sure?

Hoiking the tripod high overhead, looking south across the circle.

Looking east

Looking northwest

Thanks to Alan Endicott for refinding this stone circle, it is a prime candidate for restoration, but without stone holes to go by can it be done and more importantly was it ever really finished?

23 stones I think I counted and four murky stone shaped depressions.

Even with no stones still standing this place should still be sought out, its barely a half mile from the Greywethers over Sittaford Tor.

Equinox sun rise over Fernworthy forest.

Lost in the forest en route to the Greywethers the equinox sunrise got the jump on me, yet again!

Just a few hundred yards from the Greywethers the equinox sun rose and kicked me in the back.