Specially for patrons at the STONE $3 and above levels, here is the first in a new series of exclusive podcasts for your enjoyment.
"Every week we’ll be choosing a megalithic site that’s maybe a bit off the beaten track - perhaps some of the slightly less known or less visited ones, giving them a few minutes in the spotlight, doing what we can to create a little portrait for you of what they’re about and some of the impressions we’ve taken away from them".
First site we've chosen is a little favourite of ours from Dartmoor in Devon. Fernworthy Stone Circle (also known as Froggymead). It seems to have undergone a bit of a change of character recently as we know it as an enclosed, wooded monument, but recently the plantation trees have been cut down and now the site is open - more like it was back before the 1930s.
Whichever way, it's a special place and we hope we do it justice in this short pice (16m 38s)
N.B. In the podcast we only mentioned two cairns associated with the circle. There are in fact five.
ABOVE: Fernworthy (Froggymead) circle located by the red pin.
ABOVE: As the site appeared in 1907
ABOVE: As the site appeared to us filming in 2007
ABOVE: Part of the stone row to the north of the ring, showing the tiny stones. The ring can be glimpsed through the trees. Again, this is from 2007.
