Blackslade Down. OSGR SX 7340 7551

Direction of length S 0° E.
Dimensions 1.05 x 0.71 x 0.5m.

Comments
All four sides present, but no capstone. There was a capstone present in 1897, which has now disappeared. though a fragment may have survived.

References
Barrow Report 53, TDA LXVI (1934) 41.
TDA XXIX (1897) 150.
RH Worth Dartmoor (1953) p173, 176.
Pettit (1974) 116.
LV Grinsell (DASP 36, 1978) Widecombe 14.
Butler I (1991) 9.8.
SMR Number SX 77 NW/21.
NMR Number SX 77 NW 36.
Other References Dymond Widecombe in the Moor 1876.

Plans of the site can be found in TDA LXVI (1934), Pl VI, RH Worth Dartmoor (1953) p177, and Butler V (1997) p47.
Photographs of the site can be found in TDA LXVI (1934), Pl VI, RH Worth Dartmoor (1953) Plate 33A, and Butler I (1991) p61.

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