Childe's Tomb. OSGR SX 6257 7029

Comments
Virtually destroyed. Exceptionally large, and constructed from shaped stones.

References
N.T. Carrington Dartmoor: A Descriptive Poem (1826) 160-1.
W. Crossing Ancient Stone Crosses of Dartmoor (1902) 88-95.
TDA LXXVIII (1946), 265ff.
R.H. Worth Dartmoor (1953) p173.
L.V. Grinsell DASP 36 (1978) Lydford 96
J.R. Turner DASP 48 (1990) E33.
J. Butler Atlas of Antiquities IV (1993) 64.4.
HER/SMR number 48907 SW/55/1.
NMR number 443322 SX 67 SW 31.

A plan of the site can be found in Butler IV (1993) p220.

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