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Notes: This blank boundary stone is marked on Side by Side and is possibly the ‘Grey Mare’. We say ‘possibly’ because there is some dispute about where this stone is located. Dave Brewer (2002) writes: “From the Throssoll Stone all the sixteenth-seventeenth-century accounts take us north to Gray Mare; the eighteenth-nineteenth-century accounts also recording a reference to Stidwell, which clearly shows that Gray Mare was once to be found to the south of that spring. It is clear from all these accounts that the set upright stone near the Welstor enclosure wall just below Buckland Beacon, and which we have known as Gray Mare from William Crossing’s reference in his Guide, is there misnamed, and is in fact the next boundary point going from south to north, a Longstone, described in 1613 as ‘a long boundstone standing near the top of the hill’.”

References:

• Brewer, D. and Brewer, K. (2002): Dartmoor Boundary Markers: And Other Markers On and Around the Moor.
• Jenkinson, T. (2011): Flickr

This feature is also described in N17 Buckland Beacon.

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