Abbreviations

Arch J Archeological Journal.
BR Barrow Reports. These were mostly in the TDA from 1879 to 1958, but some early ones in TPI. A lot of this information was reprinted in RH Worth "Dartmoor", 1953.
Bate Spence Bate TDA 1872.
Bray Mrs Bray "The Borders of Tamar and Tavy" 1879.
Breton Hugh Breton "Beautiful Dartmoor", "Heart of Dartmoor" & "Forest of Dartmoor".
Butler Jeremy Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, 1991 - 7.
Burnard Robert Burnard "Dartmoor Pictorial Records" 1890-94, reprinted by Devon Books 1986.
Byng Brian Byng "Dartmoor's Mysterious Megaliths" 1979.
Carrington N.T. Carrington "Dartmoor, A Descriptive Poem" 1926.
Chapple JW Chapple "Description and Exegesis of Drewsteignton Cromlech 1779".
Croker JG Croker, "The Eastern Escarpment of Dartmoor", 1851.
Crossing "Guide to Dartmoor."
DASP Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings.
D & S Davidson & Seabrook, DASP Vol 31, 1973, p22ff.
E, W, N, S East, West, North & South.
GR National Grid Reference, mostly 8 figure, but sometimes 6 or 4.
JRT JR Turner DASP Vol 48 1990, p27ff.
LVG LV Grinsell DASP Vol 36 1978, p85ff.
NMR National Monuments Register, Swindon.
Ormerod GW Ormerod "Notes on Rude Stone Monuments on the Easterly side of Dartmoor", 1876.
OS Ordnance Survey.
Page J.Ll.W. Page "An Exploration of Dartmoor." 1895 (4th Edition)
Pettit Paul Pettit "Prehistoric Dartmoor", David & Charles 1974.
PPS Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society.
RCHM Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments.
RDEC Report of the Dartmoor Exploration Committee.
RHW Richard Hansworth Worth.
RNW Richard Norris Worth.
Rowe Samuel Rowe "A Perambulation of Dartmoor". 1827, reprinted 1893. Numbers are page numbers, with bracketed ones to the 1893 edition.
SMR Sites and Monuments Register, Exeter.
Shortt W.T.P. Shortt"Collectanea Curiosa Antiqua Dumnonia" Exeter 1841.
TAPG Dr Tom Greeves, in SMR, or private communication.
TDA Transactions of the Devonshire Association.
TPI Transactions of the Plymouth Institute.

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